Canadian tourist raped in Palermo: victim recalls man’s kindness and offered help
She met her rapist in the hospital, where she had gone to visit her hospitalized boyfriend. In difficulty because she did not speak Italian and because she was in Palermo for the first time, she asked the man, a janitor, for some information. He helped her and then offered to pick her up at the hotel to spend the evening together. The victim trusted him. This is how the story of the night of abuse begins, told by a Canadian citizen who reported everything to the carabinieri.
Today, the alleged rapist and an accomplice have been arrested.
The violence would have taken place in the room of the B&B where the girl was staying. The two ate and drank, joined a friend of the man, and then returned to the hotel.
“I was happy and having fun so I didn’t realize how time was passing. He was very kind,” she told the carabinieri. Then the approach that the woman tried to reject. “I don’t remember anything from that moment on,” she continued. The victim, who had the man’s Instagram profile data, indicated to the investigators who he was. The carabinieri reached the accomplice by monitoring the janitor’s phone and thanks to the analysis of phone records that confirmed the presence of the two at the B&B on the night of the violence.
La turista canadese violentata a Palermo, il racconto della vittima: quell’uomo era gentile e mi offrì aiuto
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