In March last year, following a report received at 113 during the night, State Police officers intervened in Via Gravina to break up an ongoing fight. Upon arrival, the police officers and the Flying Squad found a boy with a bloody face and, not far away, two other men and three women engaged in a violent struggle. With great difficulty, the officers managed to separate the contestants, subsequently requiring the intervention of medical personnel.
From the immediate reconstruction of the facts, conducted by the Flying Squad specialists, it emerged that the brawl involved two factions: the first made up of a couple and the second of two couples. All participants were young people between 22 and 30 years old, residing in Matera, Ferrandina and Gravina in Puglia.
The versions of the two groups on the causes of the friction were partly divergent; in any case, a previous contact would have occurred by chance, a few hours earlier, in via Dante, and an initial scuffle would have resulted, which then culminated in the fight which took place in via Gravina, quelled by the intervention of the State Police agents. Two of the young people who came to blows had to seek medical attention. The six were all reported to the judicial authorities. In recent days, the alleged protagonists of the brawl have been notified of the conclusion of the preliminary investigations issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Matera.
It is stated that the investigations must be understood, subject to further investigation and pending judgement, in respect of the rights of the persons under investigation, the presumption of innocence and the necessary trial verification.
