(LaPresse) “They kicked the children and their mothers because they were making videos during the attack, one shouted that he would go and get the gun”. From the account, given to La Presse, of a witness to the attack suffered on Friday evening in Torpignattara, on the eastern outskirts of Rome, by a group of children and their parents of Indian and Bangladeshi origin, chilling details emerge. “As soon as the fight started – the witness said – the Italian boys called their parents and I wonder what they had to do with it but they like fighting, being in the middle of these things. The fight was started by adults for useless reasons. These foreign kids were playing with a ball, they were small. Some local boys who are always bullies came and took the ball away from them. The parents of the Indian boys intervened and a chaos ensued. They even beat up the children. It has happened other times but not this serious, this is a neighborhood where we have always lived peacefully with everyone. A girl who got in the way and who lives in the council houses was told: ‘you’re a piece of shit, you should be ashamed’, this only because she was defending them. A boy shouted at them that he was going to get his gun now and would shoot everyone. Then they made up a lot of things, they said they were armed but it’s not true. There was only one who had a rolling pin, one of those small ones the Chinese have which he perhaps had to defend himself from other attacks. The children were very scared, they threw them to the ground and kicked them along with their mothers. A girl shouted at them: ‘go away because we don’t want Muslims’, they are really ignorant”.
