Chained Italian man found in rice field<\/p>\n
I Wayan Juniartha, The Jakarta Post\/Denpasar<\/p>\n
An Italian man, believed to be a victim of a violent crime, was
\nfound on Monday morning lying semi-conscious in an isolated rice
\nfield near Tibubeneng beach, some 10 kilometers north of Bali's
\ntourist area of Kuta.<\/p>\n
The man was identified as Gabriel Paroli, 43, who, since
\nFriday, had been registered as a guest at Puri Tanah Lot Hotel in
\nLegian.<\/p>\n
He was found at around 6:30 a.m. by a local woman, Ni Nyoman
\nSember, 40, who was on her way to feed her cows. Sember spotted
\nParoli's twitching legs jutting out of a narrow ditch. Terrified
\nby the scene, Sember ran back to nearby Tegalgundul hamlet to
\ninform local leaders.<\/p>\n
A group of men ran to check out the report. There they found
\nParoli lying in a small ditch in the rice field. His hands were
\ntied with plastic cords and a padlocked metal chain. Another
\nstrip of plastic cord bound his ankles and his mouth was gagged
\nwith a handkerchief and a strip of duct tape.<\/p>\n
Assisted by police officers, the villagers unbound Paroli and
\nrushed him to Sanglah Hospital, some 15 kilometers away.<\/p>\n
\"At that time, the victim was still able to speak although
\nincoherently. However, he fell unconscious upon his arrival at
\nSanglah,\" Bali police spokesperson Sr. Comr. AS Reniban said.<\/p>\n
As of late Monday, he was still in the intensive care unit. A
\ngroup of uniformed and plainclothes police officers stood guard
\noutside the ward, screening all visitors.<\/p>\n
On Monday afternoon, the chief of the Bali Police crime
\ninvestigation division, Sr. Comr. DBM Suharya was seen visiting
\nthe victim. But he refused to give any details about the ongoing
\ninvestigation. \"We are working on it. Now we are going to Puri
\nTanah Lot Hotel to interrogate the employees,\" he said on his way
\nout.<\/p>\n
So far, the police had questioned at least three witnesses,
\nincluding Sember.<\/p>\n
One of the detectives, however, disclosed that there weren't
\nany open wounds observed on Paroli's body. \"We found bruises on
\nseveral parts of his body, on his neck, behind one of his ears,
\non the back of his head and on his leg. There was also some minor
\nbleeding from his nose,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Moreover, bruises and scratches were also found on Paroli's
\npalms. \"These suggest that Paroli tried to resist his attackers,\"
\nhe said.<\/p>\n
He also revealed that before falling unconscious, Paroli had
\nrepeatedly muttered a word. \"He kept mumbling 'security,
\nsecurity', we are trying to figure out what he meant by that,\" he
\nadmitted.<\/p>\n
Paroli is the second Italian citizen in a week to fall victim
\nto a violent crime near Tibubeneng beach, a sparsely populated
\narea. On Oct. 27, an Italian woman, Rafaella Bacagli, 31, was
\nmurdered and dumped in the area. Her body was found next to a
\nnarrow dirt path to the beach. The police still do not have any
\nleads on the motive or the perpetrators of that homicide.<\/p>",
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