“I only know that for this great violence they inflicted on us for free, without a reason, these people have to pay. That boy is my life, they will never get any forgiveness from me as long as I have breath. ” She is tried by grief but forcefully asks for justice Paola, the mother of Giuseppe Pio D’Astolfo, the eighteen year old from Lanciano dying “for futile reasons”, as the investigators affirm, in the night between Saturday and Sunday, while in area of the former Sangritana station was in the company of his twenty-five-year-old roommate and the latter’s sixteen-year-old girlfriend. The hematoma on the left side of the skull has been removed, but his condition remains critical. “It is not getting worse but it is still in danger of life,” says the head of the intensive care unit of the Pescara hospital, Rosa Maria Zocaro.
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In coma
Giuseppe is in a pharmacological coma, the state of sedation in which they keep him serves to protect the brain from further risks. The punch he received in the head, delivered by one of the five of the baby gang who first insulted and threatened and then chased the three friends, could have killed him. None of them stopped to help when he collapsed to the ground. They preferred to disappear. He was assisted first by a girl who was nearby and then by the two boyfriends, who escaped the attack and returned to help him. He struggled to stand up but managed to reach their home. Despite his young age, in fact, Giuseppe is independent: he no longer lives with his parents and works as a clerk in a frozen food shop.
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They launch upset
In Lanciano, a city rich in history that has also become a destination for religious tourism, with an urban center evoked in the work of Remo Rapino who won the Campiello Award 2020 (“Life, death and miracles of Bonfiglio Liborio”), one lives a drama that has upset the citizens. “We are considering becoming a civil party in the trial against the perpetrators – says the mayor, Mario Pupillo -, this is an episode that unfortunately refers to other similar ones that recently occurred in Italy and that must make us reflect on the reasons why the violence seems make his way in this way among our young people ».
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The crime
Serious personal injury. This is the crime hypothesis that the Lanciano prosecutor is investigating. But that could also intervene at the court for minors in L’Aquila. In fact, in the group of attackers there would be those who are not yet of legal age. “We are listening to the witnesses and sifting through the images of the cameras, it is certain that what happened is not attributable to previous episodes”, explains the commander of the carabinieri of the Lanciano company, Vincenzo Orlando.
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The place
The former Sangritana station is a state-owned area, managed by the Tua public transport company, very close to the main street of the city. In the evening it is the meeting place for many young people who go there to drink or smoke. The Municipality would like to make it the landing point of a cycle path but in the morning the show on the old tracks continues to be that of empty bottles, shards, plastic cups and cigarette butts.
Alcohol may have triggered the violence around midnight. The larger group was only looking for an excuse to fight when they repeatedly began to annoy Joseph and the couple of friends. “Come here, do you have any problems with us?” They refused, perhaps a gesture of the eighteen-year-old was misinterpreted and the attack started.
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