The taxi driver accused of rape in Rome and the WhatsApp message to the client: “It was nice”

A taxi driver 46 years old, he was placed under house arrest by order of the Preliminary Investigative Judge of the Rome Court at the request of the prosecutor. The precautionary measure represents the result of an investigative activity that made it possible to reconstruct, with accuracy, two different episodes occurred in April 2017 and January 2020, respectively, against an American girl and an Italian girl.

SMS to the client of the taxi driver accused of sexual assault

But in the investigation process, Il Messaggero says that today there is also a message on WhatsApp sent to one of the two women who denounced him. “It was so good last night, you and me. When will we meet again? I wrote to her but she was drunk and did not remember anything that happened. And when the taxi driver replied that they had had sex, the woman, a 34-year-old employee, ran to report it. The newspaper explains that according to what was reconstructed by the carabinieri, the 46-year-old had abused her, while she was completely unconscious due to excessive alcohol consumption. Probably, with the excuse of supporting her and accompanying her to the front door, he managed to go up with her and enter her apartment, where the relationship was consummated.

And the carabineros also go back to an old file on the complaint made in 2017 to the police of a twenty-year-old American tourist who was groped in the back seat by a taxi driver but then managed to escape. Now he is under house arrest, but the fear is that the 46-year-old has been the protagonist of other attempts of violence or consumption. In the case, investigators are confident that other potential victims will find the courage to report.

Among the suspicious episodes also the suicide of a 17-year-old Australian that took place in February 2019 in the San Giovanni district. The girl told a friend that she was raped by a taxi driver last month.

Yesterday, Mayor Virginia Raggi announced in a tweet that she had “asked to start the process to revoke the license of the taxi driver arrested for sexual assault against two clients. These are very serious episodes that, if confirmed, offend the entire city and should be severely punished. Rome – he stressed – is close to battered women ».