Two 20-year-old Roma were found
guilty Tuesday of snatching a bag from a Chinese student who
chased them along rail tracks and was killed by a train on
December 5. The pair, Seferovic Sherif and Gianfranco
Ramovic, got two years, and a year and a half, respectively for
stealing from 20-year-old Zhang Yao. The sentences were handed
down after a plea bargain, judicial sources said. The robbery
happened close to an immigration bureau, not far from a large
Roma camp. Zhang, who came to Rome to study at the Academy of
Fine Arts, had been to the immigration office to get her
student's stay permit shortly before her bag was snatched by the
Roma from the nearby camp.
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