Italian police are investigating a
street fight at Lake Garda in northern Italy by gangs of
second-generation immigrant youths on the Republic Day holiday
Thursday as well as a reported sexual assault on up to 10 girls
by 30 of the suspects on the train back to Milan later that day.
The incidents have been widely condemned.
League leader Matteo Salvini said the age of criminal
responsibility should be lowered so that "a 15-year-old of
second, third or fourth generation cannot get off lightly".
He said a League-proposed law cracking down on teen gangs had
been "stuck in parliament for three years".
Democratic Party MP Laura Boldrini, chair of the Lower House
panel on human rights in the world, said "the gangs have once
more unleashed their worst instincts by abusing women's bodies,
it is unacceptable.
"I hope the probe quickly finds names and surnames".
Teen gangs, many of them formed by immigrant youths, have been
active in Italy for years with the affluent northern regions of
Lombardy and Piedmont particularly affected.
There are also many teen gangs in the south of Italy, where they
tend to be all-Italian.
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