The victims were allegedly targeted for trivial reasons or for no apparent reason and then hit with kicks, slaps, punches and even helmet blows. These are the details ofoperation Disco gang which led toarrest of six young people from Catania (aged between 20 and 25) accused of being the perpetrators of violent attacks occurred within nightclubs in Catania. There are two episodes of beating reconstructed during the investigations by police officers. Someone violent scenesthey also ended up being shared on social.
According to what has been reconstructed, the group would have acted using the same technique: generate a discussion and then attack victims with violence. The episodes that emerged occurred in the months of February and March inside two well-known premises of the nightlife Catania. The six arrested, ended up in prison homeare accused of injuries in complicity aggravated either by having determined to commit the crime or by having in any case made use of a minorand from having acted for futile reasons, in more than five people gathered together. The reconstruction of dynamics of the two episodes – the first ofFebruary 11th and the second of March 2 – was possible through the analysis of images from video surveillance systems.
The first episode occurred on the occasion of carnival celebrations of a girl from the Catania hinterland, together with his company and to others family members. In that case, the group would begin to molest the girl on the dance floor it’s at hit with helmets whoever intervened in his defense, causing injuries of varying degrees to four people. The victims reported lesions judged to heal in 5 to 30 days. The second episode, however, concerns one off-site university student. The young man would have been attacked (resulting in injuries that healed in seven days for a mild head trauma), for no reason, in another nightclub: slaps and punches by a boy backed by a group of about twenty people. A story that was filmed, at every stage, by the cameras of the venue which was then also relaunched on the social.
The investigatedfound yesterday morning (20 June) in their homes, were subjected to house arrest. One was untraceable. At the same time the commissioner Of Catania issued the Daspo Willy lasting three years. Given that young people are the recipients of precautionary measures, as a result of the Caivano decreehas been extended to all nightclubs and public entertainment venues in the entire province of Catania. Violation of the measure constitutes a crime that provides for imprisonment from one to three years and one fine from 10 thousand to 24 thousand euros.
