He had refused the request for money made to him by a foreigner, and for this reason he was literally beaten to death in broad daylight in Turin: due to the injuries sustained in the beating, the victim, an elderly man, is now hospitalized with a guarded prognosis
According to what was reported by the authorities, the events occurred during the early hours of yesterday afternoon, Monday 17 June, in Piazza Bottesini in Turin, in the Barriera district of Milan. L’elderly he was calmly sitting on a bench in the gardens when he was approached by an individual of North African origin looking for money. Faced with the refusal, the foreigner flew into a rage, attacking the man with unprecedented violence: not just kicks and punches, given that the victim was also beaten with his own walker. And all this to get hold of 5 euros.
Fortunately, some residents witnessed the scene and immediately contacted the emergency services and the police. Some state police cars, army soldiers and a 118 ambulance rushed to Piazza Bottesini. The medical staff gave first aid to the elderly man, still in shock from what had happened and covered in blood due to of the injuries sustained in the beating. The man, with a probable fracture of the nasal septum, was transported to the San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Turin, where he is still hospitalized in reserved prognosis.
Meanwhile, the officers managed to track down the person responsible, a man of Moroccan origins, who was arrested on charges of attempted robbery and attempted murder.
“There is a lot of anger that continues to rise among the many residents who know the elderly man”he commented on Facebook denouncing the facts, the group leader of the Brothers of Italy in District 6, Verangela Marino, “fortunately the timely intervention of the officers prevented the lynching of the individual in question”. “I find it unworthy and shameful that these episodes can occur at two in the afternoon”continues Marino, “above all that we continue to leave ‘crazy and dangerous balls’ on the street like this individual, who already last week was the protagonist of an ugly gesture with another woman addict“.
The two, according to what was reported by the FdI group leader, had already attempted to deceive the same elderly man “to take a few euros out of his pocket in order to recover his daily dose of narcotics.
I hope that this person will not only be kept in prison, but will be permanently removed from circulation and entrusted to designated services that can treat him and keep him away from respectable people like the gentleman in question.”
