Bars and fists in the garage of horror: 11 investigated for torture and kidnapping, including minors.

Carabinieri officers from the Rome Trastevere Company have executed two precautionary warrants against 11 suspects—six adults and five minors, all Italian—charged with torture, kidnapping, and illegal possession of explosives. The focus is on a brutal raid in January 2025: the victims were taken from their homes and dragged to a garage in the Massimina neighborhood.

There, bound hand and foot, they were savagely beaten with fists, slaps, clubs, and blunt objects, including boiling water, which caused serious injuries. The motive? Drug-related debts, as revealed by an arrest for drug possession in March 2025.

The joint investigation and the bombing

The warrants, issued by the investigating judge at the joint request of the Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA) and the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office, coordinated by prosecutors Carlo Villani and Carlo Morra, stem from that arrest. The investigation uncovered two incidents of torture in January and gathered evidence regarding the instigators, perpetrators, and accomplices of a bombing on June 30 in the Primavalle neighborhood.

The explosion caused the entrance hall of an Ater building to collapse, causing panic among residents. Investigations are now aimed at reconstructing the criminal network, which included minors already implicated in violence and drug trafficking.

The green light for the bombing that took place on June 30th in Rome's Primavalle neighborhood, which caused the collapse of a building's entrance hall, came from an inmate in the high-security unit of the Viterbo prison. This is what emerges from the investigation documents.

One of the charges alleges that a 25-year-old commissioned the criminal act from a minor inside prison, "for the promise of compensation." The request for precautionary measures then details various incidents of torture—related to drug debts—that occurred inside a garage.

"I'll cut you off, I'll kill you," were the threats leveled against one of the victims, whose hair was then cut off with a "knife at the base of the skull" after being beaten with whips. In another incident, dating back to January 12 of last year, the victim was tortured by "pouring boiling water over him." During the attack, they told him, "Tomorrow you have to bring 2 euros," while also holding a knife under his throat.