Two minors aged 16 and 17 admit to minicar assaults in Rome, including one on actor Davide Iacopini, who remains in intensive care.Two teenagers have confessed to a series of attacks carried out from a minicar in Rome on 4 and 5 October, investigators said on Wednesday.The pair, aged 16 and 17, were identified by the Carabinieri and Rome’s local police, working under the coordination of the city’s prosecutors, and the vehicle was seized overnight. They were questioned at a Carabinieri station by a prosecutor and admitted the six assaults, which took place in the Monteverde district. The driver lives in Monteverde and his passenger in Testaccio. Reports say the teenagers were celebrating one of their birthdays at the time. One of the two is reportedly the son of a Carabinieri police officer. Davide Iacopini The most serious attack was on actor Davide Iacopini, 42, who was kicked from the vehicle on 5 October as he rode an electric scooter along Via Barrilli. Best known for the Roman crime series Suburra, Iacopini is still in intensive care at San Camillo hospital with a “reserved prognosis”. Prosecutors opened an attempted murder investigation, which has now been passed to the juvenile prosecutor’s office. The teenagers have been formally reported but not detained.Another victim, a 67-year-old man, told police he was struck in the side with a plastic pipe on Viale dei Quattro Venti late on 4 October. Breakthrough Investigators traced the black minicar partly through a mechanic, who said he had fitted a red light near the number plate and added stickers, including one of a snake. The pair’s movements were also pieced together using a parental-monitoring app on one of their phones, which allows a device to be tracked remotely. Local media reported that CCTV footage helped too.

Two teenagers have confessed to a series of attacks carried out from a minicar in Rome on 4 and 5 October, investigators said on Wednesday. The pair, aged 16 and 17, were identified by the Carabinieri and Rome’s local police, working under the coordination of the city’s prosecutors, and the vehicle was seized overnight. They were questioned at a Carabinieri station by a prosecutor and admitted the six assaults, which took place in the Monteverde district. The driver lives in Monteverde and his passenger in Testaccio. Reports say the teenagers were celebrating one of their birthdays at the time. One of the two is reportedly the son of a Carabinieri police officer. The most serious attack was on actor Davide Iacopini, 42, who was kicked from the vehicle on 5 October as he rode an electric scooter along Via Barrilli. Best known for the Roman crime series Suburra, Iacopini is still in intensive care at San Camillo hospital with a “reserved prognosis”. Prosecutors opened an attempted murder investigation, which has now been passed to the juvenile prosecutor’s office. The teenagers have been formally reported but not detained.

Another victim, a 67-year-old man, told police he was struck in the side with a plastic pipe on Viale dei Quattro Venti late on 4 October. Investigators traced the black minicar partly through a mechanic, who said he had fitted a red light near the number plate and added stickers, including one of a snake. The pair’s movements were also pieced together using a parental-monitoring app on one of their phones, which allows a device to be tracked remotely. Local media reported that CCTV footage helped too.