TREVISO – When he scolded them and told them to stop they threatened him heavily: «Be careful, we’ll cut your throat with a razor blade». This is the serious threat that a baby gang, made up of about ten teenagers, made to an elderly man from Monigo on the night between Thursday and Friday. The boys met again before midnight. In a short time they destroyed the mirrors of some parked cars, bins overturned And part of the construction site’s barriers was knocked upside down of the school, as well as the chemical toilet. The hustle and bustle along via Sant’Elena imperatrice has sI asked a resident to leave his house to see what was happening. Once she met the young people, she addressed them and told them to stop their raids. And in response she received one death threat.
FEAR
The elderly man had no choice but to return to his home. Luckily this time no one came to raise their hands. The fact is that yesterday in Monigo there was nothing else talked about. «This was a quiet neighborhood, however, now the baby gangs are arriving here too – a resident spreads his arms – it’s not easy to deal with them because we fear that the kids are armed with knives. The worst thing is that they’re not really afraid of anything. In fact, now we are the ones who are afraid to go out at night.” They don’t feel like showing their face. The fear of possible retaliation is too high. And this already says a lot about the climate we are experiencing in this corner of Treviso. In all this, the neighborhood tries to join forces.
WHATSAPP GROUPS
Some time ago the WhatsApp group was created “Monigo supervision”, a sort of neighborhood watch to combat home thefts. Now we go even further. «There are men who take turns at night and go on patrols – reveal the inhabitants – so that there is always a minimum of passage, without areas of the neighborhood that remain too deserted». Things were sorted out quickly yesterday morning. Just before the first bell rang at school, around 7.40, everything was already in order. But the mothers of some students still discussed what had happened, without hiding their concern. Unfortunately this is not an isolated case in the city.
THE ESCALATION
The Monigo episode adds to the now historic difficulties recorded in the Piazza Borsa quadrant. And the violence against the 50-year-old beaten last week in Vicolo Rialto. Furthermore, in mid-March, bullies attacked a 14-year-old near the Mom stop in the Via delle Absidi area: a real ambush carried out with kicks and punches. And a month ago an Artistic student was robbed at the Treviso station by a gang led, according to what emerged, by a 13-year-old boy from San Liberale. And so on.
THE DEBATE
In the city council on Thursday, just a few hours before the raid in Monigo, the mayor Mario Conte had spoken about youth discomfort. «The time has come to change the social pattern in which we live. That is, adapting it to the characteristics of a society that has changed, from many points of view: the advent of digital, the presence of communities with different cultures in our territory, Covid, the role of families, the economic moment – he explained – if If we thought that a mayor, any mayor, could alone, through ordinances, agendas, motions, local police, public safety committees, solve the problem of the emergency of youth hardship at a national level, we would be irresponsible. But we’re not. We must all work seriously towards understanding what the problem is.” «Youth problems must not become a political battlefield – was the conclusion, also addressed to the opposition in Palazzo dei Trecento – on this issue there is no need to gain or lose votes, but to recover young people, who are much fewer compared to the good ones who are still many.”
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