AGI – Mamadou Gara, Alinno Chima and Brian Minthe voluntarily carried out the “criminal action” against Desirèe Mariottini, the 16-year-old from Cisterna di Latina who died on 19 October 2018 in an abandoned building in via dei Lucani in the area of San Lorenzo in Rome. Speaking of Alinno, Minteh and Salia (for him the life sentence is definitive) – write the judges of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome in the reasons for the sentence with which, on May 29th, they reduced the death sentences of the 16-year-old -, “in the face of the now very serious condition of psycho-physical debilitation in which the minor found herself, who at that point already appeared to be in a state of unconsciousness, not only did they not provide the assistance due to the injured person, showing an absolute indifference towards the life of the young victim, but they firmly opposed and threatened those who suggested the intervention of an ambulance which would have prevented the girl’s death”.
The judges, in the context of the second degree trial, imposed 22 years on Gara, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first appeal trial. Chima, who had been sentenced to 27 years, was sentenced to 26 years, and Minthe, who had already been sentenced to 24 years, to 18 years. The three, all citizens of African origin, are accused, depending on their position, of murder, sexual violence and drug dealing. For the judges “the risk of overdose (and consequent death) for Desirèe was foreseeable in the concrete case, a risk to be considered all the more substantial and yet negligently ignored by Gara, interested exclusively in sexually abusing the girl due to the progressive and worsening state of uneasiness revealed by the minor in a clear state of impaired defense”.
The appeal magistrates add that Gara took advantage of the condition in which Desirèe found herself in the initial phase and then moved away from the building “blamefully neglecting, through carelessness, sloth, carelessness, ignorance or, more simply, indifference, those signals, completely disinterested in the girl and not even alerting those present in the ‘crack room’ (underestimating or not even weighing Desirèe’s state of health), thus putting in place – the judges write – a conduct that was to be expected of him based on the precautionary rules that had to be followed” .
Finally, the reasons state that “it is now definitively and irrevocably ascertained that Gara participated, with Salia and Alinno, in the repeated sale of narcotic and psychotropic substances to Desirèe, who, that morning, showed up in the building in full-blown state of withdrawal, desperate for drugs.”
