Three 16-year-olds including a
kickboxing enthusiast of Moroccan origin were arrested Friday on
charges of attempted murder for carrying out a rash of vicious
robberies in Turin including one on two school pupils at a bus
stop, police said.
The three also were charged with robbery and grievous
bodily harm after allegedly disfiguring the faces of two small
boys March 8 as they stole their satchels following an all-night
party.
Police said the two boys required a series of facial
operations in hospital while the trio were responsible for three
other robberies.
The gang leader, of Moroccan origin, already had landed in
prison for mugging a woman at dawn in the Porta Palazzo area of
the Piedmontese capital.
The kickboxing buff was quoted as telling police he used the
proceeds of the woman's handbag to buy a kebab.
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