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Italian student wrongly identified in BTS video, hit with thousands of threats

Carolina Di Vico said she has filed a report to Polizia postale after she was wrongly mistook for one of the students Thailand's viral BTS altercation video. (Photo: carolina.cdv)

A 23-year-old university student in Milan has filed a police report after being wrongly identified online as one of the Italian students filmed harassing a passenger on Bangkok's Skytrain, receiving thousands of messages in Thai, English and broken machine-translated Italian.

In an interview with Corriere della Sera published on July 30, Carolina Di Vico, a university student from the Communications at Milan's IULM University, said she has filed a report to Polizia postale after she was wrongly mistook for one of the students in a video that sparked outrage in Thailand.

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