The 77-year-old parent, exasperated by the constant requests for money from his cohabiting son, too often accompanied by physical assaults and threats, decided to dial the emergency number “112” and ask the police for help.
It happened in Casapulla, where just before midnight yesterday the operator on duty of the Operations Center of the Company of Santa Maria Capua Vetere sent a patrol from the local Operations and Radiomobile Unit.
Having arrived at the reported address, the soldiers found the elderly man waiting for them in the street in the company of his daughter, still afraid of his son’s aggressive behavior and with obvious abrasions on his right arm.
After reassuring him, the police, accompanied by the 77-year-old, entered the apartment where they surprised his 41-year-old son, still in a highly agitated state, intent on making death threats against his father.
At the sight of the soldiers, the man reached the bedroom where, in a moment of anger and violence, triggered following his father’s refusal to give him 30 euros, he had already uprooted part of the door from the wall. entrance and shattered the internal glass.
After restoring calm within the home, the police requested the intervention of medical personnel from the “118” service who immediately provided the necessary care to the elderly father.
The man, having recovered from his fright, formalized a complaint against his son, specifying that he was no stranger to aggressive behavior towards him and that the reason for such conduct was always linked to the demand for sums of money.
The 41-year-old, accompanied to the barracks, was arrested and taken to the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison. He will have to answer for attempted extortion and mistreatment against family members.
