The story of the violence in Torpignattara: “Fight started by Italian adults for useless reasons”
July 2, 2024
“They have 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 story, given to La Presse, of a witness of the attack suffered on Friday evening in Torpignattaraon the eastern outskirts of Rome, chilling details emerge from a group of children and their parents of Indian and Bangladeshi origin.
“As soon as the fight started – the witness says – 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 the adults for useless reasons. These foreign kids were playing with a ball, they were little. Some local kids who are always bullies came and took the ball away from them. The parents of the Indian kids intervened and a mess ensued. They even beat up the kids. 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 him that he was going to get his gun now and he would shoot everyone. Then they made up a lot of things, they said they were armed but it wasn’t true. There was only one who he had a rolling pinthe small ones of the Chinese that he had perhaps to defend himself from other attacks. The children were very scared, they threw them to the ground and kicked them together with their mother. A girl shouted at them: ‘go away because we don’t want Muslims’, they are really ignorant”.
