Police in Italy arrested four children aged 11 to 13 in the fatal car crash involving 71-year-old Cecilia de Astis in a Milan neighborhood on Monday.

According to local media reports, the four children after the 71-year-old woman was fatally draggedaway, hiding in a Roma campnear the scene of the accident.

According to the same sources, the 13-year-old of those arrested was at the wheel of the car, which had been stolen from a French tourist

The crash occurred when the juvenile lost control, causing him to crash into the guardrails and crash into the 71-year-old woman, who was allegedly thrown 10 metres away before the vehicle ended up on a traffic sign.

After the crash, Italy’s deputy prime minister, Mateo Salvini, called for the dismantling of the Roma camp where the four minors were hiding. “The Roma camp must be evacuated immediately and then demolished. After years of theft and violence, the false ‘parents’ must be arrested and their parental rights revoked. Mayor Sala and leftists, are you there? A prayer for poor Cecilia,” Salvini said.

De Astis, who was originally from Puglia and worked as a textile worker in a factory and had two sons, had turned 71 last June

The stolen car reportedly belonged to a 20-year-old from Strasbourg, who was visiting Milan with three friends and had left the car parked on a road 1.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) from the scene of the fatal drift.