Now it’s difficult to talk about a girl. That, in the past, there were fights when leaving school, arguments for the stupidest reasons that degenerated into fistfights between neighborhood gangs. But those, in fact, were girls. Now the very young people at the end of lessons don’t fight over the most beautiful girl in the class, over a wrong sentence. No, now they do it to rob others. And, as in the TV series, they use strong methods. And then the weapons.
This is perhaps the most disturbing aspect of what happened the other day in Viale Mentana around 1.30 pm, precisely at the time when the students swarmed at the end of lessons. While some of them wander around looking for prey to hit.
In this case, at number 130, therefore practically in front of the Duc, a boy of just seventeen was confronted by two other young people. All we know about them is that they were very young, black and wore dark overalls. And most importantly, they had an electric stun gun.
A device which, in practice, releases a very powerful electric shock, so much so that, according to current legislation, albeit very controversial, it can be purchased but not carried around. Needless to say, those two had it. And they used it.
The baby robbers, in fact, confronted the boy and ordered him to hand over his cell phone. And if saying it with a hard face is one thing, doing it with your hand, a device that releases a shock of thousands of volts, is much worse.
A fight arose between the three in which the victim was also hit so forcefully that he suffered several bruises which were treated by the emergency room staff. In fact, shortly afterwards an ambulance and the police arrived on site and tried to gather the first clues by hearing the boy who was then immediately joined by his father. But the boy was able to provide only a few indications while it seems that at the moment there were no eyewitnesses to the incident. Someone, however, noticed what had happened and alerted the emergency services and the military who are now investigating to reconstruct the identity of those responsible for what was in all respects a robbery.
Help for the investigation could come, it is hoped, from the cameras that monitor the area and which could have filmed the two fleeing.
In many cases of attacks against very young people recently, the perpetrators have indeed been discovered. In this case, however, what is striking is, in addition to the determination of the baby robbers, young in age but mature in malice, is the use of that tool which, it must be remembered, had recently appeared also during a huge fight that broke out between boys in Piazza Ghiaia. On that occasion it had been used to “stun” an adversary, in this case to tame the victim of a robbery. In both cases, however, it starts to get scary.
Luca Pelagatti
