LEGNANO – They surrounded them, pushed them and then beat them savagely, sending them two in the hospital. Only the intervention of some of their older friends stopped them before things could end very badly. A “herd” of foreigners, all minors and under the influence of alcoholstruck around midnight between Tuesday and yesterday, Wednesday 1 May, in the Falcone Borsellino Park in Legnano (in the picture). Victim, a group of young Italians, three boys and four girls, “guilty” of sitting on a bench which the pack believed was his and no one else’s.
Surrounded and attacked by about twenty minors
«But it was only a pretext, they wanted to beat us for fun» one of them tells us Malpensa24 who hides behind the name of Marians, hit in the leg and then, once he ended up on the ground, kicked by several kids all at once. Certainly foreigners, described as North Africans and drunks, began to make jokes and insults, telling them to move from where the group of young people, 18-year-old Italians who attend high school or technical institutes in the cityhad dared to sit in the city center park.
“Never seen such violence”
«There is no such thing – continues one of the victims of the savage attack, still shaken – it is neither in heaven nor on earth. I know that park is infamous, but I’ve never heard of anything like that. It’s always the same people who do these things, it’s scandalous. They had been drinking, you could smell it on their breath. They didn’t rob us, they just wanted to have fun at our expense by beating us up.” First they raised their hands, pulling some slapping in the face and touching to provoke a reaction until one of the students, all friends, pushed one away. It was the spark that unleashed the fury of the group of minors, fifteen, perhaps twenty, with a maximum age of around 15: when they jumped on him, the young man tried to react but was overwhelmed, with around ten or more of those kids who were terrible at hitting him. Punches, kicks to the shins and head. Crazy and uncontrolled violence.
The repeated invitation to stay calm and show that you want to leave without causing problems was of no use. Only the intervention of other foreigners managed to interrupt a worthy beating Clockwork Orange. The victims of the attack then called the Carabinieri, who arrived with a patrol who, given the conditions of some of the young people attacked, He called the ambulances. Marians and one of her friends who happened to be the ones who got the worst of it a face full of marks, a black eye and a cut on the lip. “When we saw them attacking him who was on the ground, we told them to stop, and they beat us.” The other young man treated in the emergency room reported a head injury and a chest contusion.
Park well known in the news
Many of the members of the baby gang they would have already been identified, also via video surveillance cameras. Some would already be known to the city police force. One of them attended a martial arts gym, from which he was removed precisely because of his violent behavior.
For some time the green area in the center has been prey to gangs of very young people who run around unpunished from the shopping arcade to benches and games, making it the masters. Passing there at certain hours of the day is a risk, thefts, robberies and assaults have occurred several times in the past. A sort of “free zone” that always keeps the debate on safety in the city alive.
legnano babygang aggression security – MALPENSA24
