He wanted to “document the state of social integration in Bologna, interviewing some foreign boys near the station”, but two of them beat him up and robbed him of the briefcase he was carrying. However, the judicial police team of the railway police first managed to find the briefcase and return it to him, and then to identify the attackers, two Nigerians who were reported at large for the robbery. Furthermore, one of them was arrested for possession for the purpose of dealing.
The attack, according to the police headquarters, occurred last Wednesday in Piazza xx Settembre. When the video blogger asked a group of young foreigners some questions, two of them heavily insulted him, then beat him and took away his briefcase. The whole thing, the police headquarters detail, was “recorded and published on the YouTube channel of the aspiring interviewer”, who then “also documented and published the rest of his day, which ended in the emergency room of the major hospital with a 15-day prognosis for the injuries sustained.” After the episode, the Polfer investigations began immediately, which led “to the discovery of the briefcase, intact in its contents and returned to the owner in the emergency room, and to the identification of the two attackers, reported in a state of freedom for the robbery” . One of the two was also arrested for possession for the purpose of dealing because, at the time of the check, he had 16 doses of cocaine and heroin, and the other attacker was reported at large for the same crime. On Monday morning, following the outcome of the very direct trial, the arrest was validated and the Nigerian – already the recipient of a mandatory deportation order from the municipality of Bologna – was subjected to a residence ban in the Metropolitan City.
