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* Maranza: slang term for youth gangs that engage in petty crimes, usually of MENA origins

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Teachers attacked by “maranza”: Parma held hostage by youth gangs. Bocchi (FdI): “Urgent measures and exemplary punishments are needed”

Fear near the ITIS Leonardo da Vinci: students and passersby threatened in the park. Brothers of Italy attacks the left: “Failure of educational and pro-immigration policies.”

Parma, ITIS Leonardo da Vinci, near Parco Falcone e Borsellino. A green area now transformed into a land of fear. For some time now, the area has been hostage to the “maranza,” young people — often minors — who beat, threaten, and rob unfortunate victims. Students, passersby, tourists: there is no distinction. The latest incident took place only hours ago: a video published online shows two teachers surrounded and attacked by members of an alleged youth gang.

The images leave little room for interpretation. The group surrounds one teacher and two youths attack him. Shortly afterward, another teacher intervenes to stop the assault, threatening to call the police. Chaos, shouting, confusion, but also amused laughter in the background from the youths present. The exact dynamics of the episode still need to be clarified and confirmed, but everything points to yet another ambush by violent youths.

“Unfortunately, this is not surprising: incidents like this have been happening for years,” Priamo Bocchi, regional councilor in Emilia-Romagna for Brothers of Italy, told us. “These young people must be identified quickly, and the schools they attend must take disciplinary measures because if they are dangerous to school staff, they will also be dangerous to their classmates. We are facing the failure of educational institutions, especially the family, and we are reaping the consequences of disastrous and irresponsible pro-immigration policies that the Meloni Government is now trying to remedy. The Five Star Movement and PD-led administrations of recent years have caused disasters. And yet in 2027 Parma will be the European Youth Capital.”

For Bocchi, this latest attack represents the sign “of a very serious social malaise that our local authorities are underestimating. Whether they are second-generation foreigners or not matters little: there is a serious problem here that requires drastic measures and severe, urgent action. When people start laying hands on teachers, we have truly hit rock bottom.”

“We asked for the Local Police to be deployed in these problematic areas — which are not many — during the most critical hours. There are young people who are afraid to go to the bus stop because crossing a park is frightening. They are asked for money or cigarettes, knives are pulled out: it is unacceptable,” added the FdI representative, calling for “urgent measures and exemplary punishments.”

“We need to work on two fronts, not just repression. Of course repression is fundamental: when there is an infection, you need antibiotics, other therapies do not work. But there must also be work on integration and inclusion, and on that front the left-wing administrations are failing.”

Yesterday afternoon, again at Parco Falcone e Borsellino, a 25-year-old man was attacked with pepper spray. A few days earlier, something similar had happened. On the night between Saturday and Sunday, right in the city center, several young people were attacked by a group of “maranza” who also used pepper spray.

Residents and shopkeepers fear for their safety and peace of mind: knives, brass knuckles, weapons of every kind, and shocking violence often carried out for a few coins — or simply for no reason at all. Signals that the authorities can no longer pretend to ignore.

“The Bangla Tour in Venice: ‘Vote in the Name of Allah’”

The Islamic candidates of the Democratic Party are going door to door and holding rallies in foreign languages. In the Democratic Party’s electoral program: “Minorities to be protected.”

After the video that went viral in which the Islamic candidates of the PD in Venice give “lessons” to their followers on how to mark the PD symbol on the ballot paper, now comes the parade as well. There are as many as seven Muslim candidates running in the local elections, scheduled for May 24 and 25. As they walk through the streets of the city wearing T-shirts reading “the strength to change,” they deliver a speech that we necessarily had to translate because it was not in our native language. So, which voters are they addressing? Certainly not Italians. “I am trying to reach you to ask for your support and your prayers,” is one of Ali Hossain’s statements. “I am Hossain, I ask you to pray for me. I invite all of you to vote for Ali Hossain and support him with your prayers,” then he adds that at the same time people can also vote for the others on the same list.

And they announce the door-to-door method: “We are trying to go house by house. If we have not yet managed to reach you, write it in the comments and, God willing, we will come to you. And if you think you care about us and want to stand by our side, we ask you to share our information with everyone else.” Not a single mention of what they intend to accomplish for the city, and above all for the citizens of Venice, who certainly have priorities other than proposals such as the Islamic cemetery put forward by one of them. But it was to be expected that such a large community (there are around 30,000 Muslims, half of them Bangladeshi) would not remain silent. And we should have understood the group’s intentions from the moment their leaflets appeared inviting people to vote “in the name of Allah.”

Looking through the program published on the website of Andrea Martella, the PD mayoral candidate supported by the entire broad left-wing coalition, however, one could sense something when he proposes “an integrated and original approach to the issue of citizens’ security, promoting active policies that represent the true alternative to the right wing’s security-focused model, for example through urban redevelopment interventions, active measures for the rehabilitation and prevention of disadvantaged individuals who are or risk entering the criminal market, socio-cultural inclusion projects to reduce fears.”

Or when he explains that his project, “of radical change from the policies pursued so far by the outgoing administration, recognizes itself in the values of the Italian Constitution (democracy, solidarity, anti-fascism, labor, peace, individual rights, freedom of worship, protection of minorities, freedom of culture and scientific research, protection of historical heritage, generational and gender equality, environmental sustainability, secularism) and of the European Union (human dignity, freedom, social equality, rule of law, gender equality, inclusiveness for the LGBT community, human rights), with the commitment to building national and international relationships to consolidate these values.” These are the hours of the final appeals.

Kamrul Syed, spokesperson for the Bangladeshi community and candidate for the City Council, is direct: “I want,” he writes on social media in his own language, “our second and third generations to lead society with their heads held high, to be proud of their identity, and to create a better future tomorrow.” But Bengali has paradoxically — considering that this is an Italian city — been the mother tongue of this electoral campaign: entire advertisements and meetings conducted strictly in a foreign language because it is evident that the target audience to reach was the Muslim foreigner who otherwise would not have gone to the polls and who, in this way, found someone with whom they could identify.

The center-right candidate, the independent Simone Venturini, attacks: “The center-left sought votes through agreements that were never made public, with closed and self-referential communities. They placed these candidates on the list and are now hiding them from the press.”

For Venturini, the issue is also the right of Venetians to know these people’s real commitment to public institutions. And he wonders “whether they are capable of representing the whole city, and not only their own community of origin.” Questions to which, indirectly at least, the voters called to the polls will now be able to respond.

Giovanni Giacalone, analyst of Islamic extremism and terrorism and member of the David Institute for Security Policy: “There is a link between the resurgence of terrorism and immigration”

The extremism expert analyzes the Italian situation after the events in Modena and the arrests in Florence and Cosenza: “These cases should not be downplayed, but called by their proper name.”

From Modena to Florence and Cosenza, there is a common thread linking all these episodes: we are probably facing a “resurgence” of terrorism in Italy. A form of terrorism very different from the traditional one, and therefore much more difficult to contain. To deal with it, however, it is necessary to stop minimizing and start calling things by their proper name.” According to Giovanni Giacalone, the attack in Modena by El Koudri, the arrest in Florence of the “baby jihadist,” and the conviction in Cosenza of a Tunisian man linked to ISIS all have something in common, suggesting a broader terrorism risk scenario that should be monitored very carefully and deserves immediate responses.

Doctor Giacalone, although different from one another, the latest events cast a disturbing light on the risk of radicalization in Italy. Do you believe there may be a common direction behind them?

“I would not speak of a single direction, but certainly of a ‘resurgence’ of terrorism. We are clearly dealing with different cases, different individuals, different situations and different ages, but in every case they are involved in terrorist activity. Whether people want to call it terrorism or not is another matter; in my opinion it is. It has simply emerged later here compared to other countries. And there is a reason for that.”

What is that reason?

“The reason is that Italy, compared with the explosion of migratory phenomena, is ‘behind’ countries such as France and United Kingdom. We are experiencing with delay what has already existed there for years. I remember when people used to say that we did not have banlieues here: today, all it takes is a walk through certain areas of Milan, Turin, or Padua to change your mind.”

So there is a direct correlation between terrorism and immigration?

“From my point of view, yes. Many people supported the strange theory that ‘jihadists do not arrive on migrant boats,’ but today the facts and a very precise pattern clearly contradict that.”

What pattern are you referring to?

“In my work, I rely on concrete facts. There is a website called  Jihad Monitor Italy, which reports all cases of jihadism not only in Italy but also in other European countries. Looking through the archive, which is based on primary sources, it is enough to examine the names, surnames, backgrounds of the individuals, and the various cases. All these elements outline a precise scheme, a pattern common to many attacks, including the one in Modena.”

So, in your opinion, can the Modena attack be classified as terrorism?

“I found it very strange that only a few hours after the attack there were already people describing it as the act of a madman, an isolated case unrelated to terrorism, simply because it had emerged that El Koudri had undergone treatment for a period of time. In reality, we have an individual who stated that he had gone out ‘to die,’ carrying a knife in his car, and who drove to the busiest street in Modena during Saturday rush hour to run over as many pedestrians as possible.

I mean, this modus operandi alone already gives us a very clear picture, showing dynamics we have seen again and again over the years in attacks in other European countries.

When people immediately rush to say that it is not terrorism, they do no favor to the protection of civil society or citizens. Because it creates even more insecurity among the affected population and gives the impression that the authorities are trying to downplay and minimize the matter.”

Those who support this theory also argue that there are no claims of responsibility or membership in structured terrorist groups.

“And that is a serious mistake. Because terrorism as we knew it until the early 2000s no longer exists. It has radically changed.”

In what way?

“In 2014, it was precisely ISIS that, through an audio message from its then spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, encouraged individual supporters of the organization to act using vehicles and knives. So we are talking about self-activating individuals, like the ones we are seeing these days. Furthermore, in 2025 the ISIS newsletter al-Naba, following the wars in Gaza Strip and Lebanon, issued another appeal urging followers to carry out attacks using vehicles and knives. We are facing a more than clear mechanism. The problem is that many people still imagine the ‘classic’ terrorist attack, perhaps carried out by a cell hierarchically connected to the organization through a chain of command. That is no longer the case: here we are talking about actions carried out by individuals or groups, it matters little, who activate themselves independently.”

Can the arrest of the 15-year-old aspiring jihadist in Florence be interpreted within this framework?

“Certainly. We are used to talking about terrorist organizations with hierarchies, chains of command and control, and networks made up of cells, like Al-Qaeda. With the internet, everything changed: terrorists, like everyone else, began exploiting the web according to their objectives. They cast the net, spreading radical propaganda far and wide, waiting for individuals inclined toward violence or attracted by that narrative to self-activate. It is a very difficult dynamic to contain. For them, it is a much more advantageous mechanism.”

What countermeasures could be effective in such a situation?

“There is a lot of work to be done. First of all, the climate of hatred that has developed in recent years should be stigmatized; then we need to start calling things by their proper names objectively, not according to fears, anxieties, or political agendas. If it is terrorism, it must be stated clearly.”

Is Italy ready for this challenge?

“Our security apparatuses are notoriously efficient when it comes to terrorism: the arrests in Florence and Cosenza prove that. Preventive capabilities exist, but now an extra gear is needed.”

Milan — Gambian man, 30, found at the station with a machete

A 30-year-old man from Gambia was walking around Milano Centrale railway station with a machete in his backpack, which he later pulled out near the train platforms. The man was eventually stopped by officers of the Polizia Ferroviaria.

The incident occurred last Monday afternoon, May 18, at around 3:00 p.m. The gesture caused moments of panic among travelers, although fortunately no one was injured.

The man had arrived in the Lombardy capital on a train from Emilia-Romagna and, according to authorities and local media reports, first exited through the gate at the end of the platforms. He then decided to re-enter, but after finding a queue in front of him, he pulled a machete from his backpack and went back in through a closed turnstile.

He later boarded another train, where officers from the Polizia Ferroviaria intervened and arrested him on charges of resisting a public official and carrying an offensive weapon. After repeatedly ordering him to drop the machete, the officers were forced to use a taser.

According to preliminary information, the man, who is reportedly resident in Modena, allegedly has several prior criminal convictions and an expired work residence permit.

Florence — 15-year-old Tunisian linked to ISIS arrested on terrorism charges: “He was ready to strike”

Investigation by the DIGOS. In chat conversations, he allegedly said he was “ready to carry out an attack.”

A 15-year-old Tunisian boy is under investigation for recruitment with the purpose of international terrorism. On this charge, the investigating judge of the juvenile court of Florence, at the request of the juvenile prosecutor’s office, issued a detention order in a juvenile detention facility, which was carried out by officers of the Polizia di Stato.

The minor, who arrived in Italy just over three years ago, had already been placed in a community facility last October for the same alleged offense. On March 23, he had been admitted by the juvenile court judge to a probationary rehabilitation program, leading to the revocation of the previous precautionary measure.

According to investigators, beginning the very day after the previous measure was revoked, he allegedly resumed interacting on social media with accounts linked to individuals affiliated with the extremist Islamist sphere, using profiles associated with a new phone number registered in his name.

At the request of the DIGOS, the juvenile prosecutor’s office then ordered a new search operation, which led to the seizure of the mobile phone used by the teenager. Analysis of the device reportedly revealed new interactions with profiles linked to radical Islamist extremism.

In some messages, according to investigators, the minor allegedly stated that he was “ready to act,” receiving indications about the type of location to choose for carrying out an attack and showing interest in obtaining weapons.

Islamic terrorists—almost all of them North Africans with EU citizenship

Political correctness has now erased the term “attack” from the lexicon of multicultural society’s narrative. Now it is cars that mow down pedestrians on the street, not the drivers behind the wheel, who are then immediately exonerated because they suffer from mental health issues. The blame?
It lies with Italians’ hatred of foreigners. They wrote that Salim El Koudri felt bullied because Italy is a country of racists. However, it later emerged that, in an email sent to the University of Modena, the Moroccan with Italian citizenship wrote: “Shitty Christian bastards. I’ll burn you and your Jesus Christ on the cross.”

The 2025 report by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, however, offers a precise and comprehensive picture. The vast majority of attacks, 76 percent, were carried out by second- or third-generation European citizens, mainly of North African origin, and by legal immigrants who had been residing in the country for years. The Kouachi brothers and Amédy Coulibaly, perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo massacre on January 7, 2015, were French citizens; the former were of Algerian origin, the latter of Malian origin.

The toll was 20 dead and 22 wounded. The Bataclan attack team consisted of second-generation Belgians and French nationals. On November 13, 2015, they killed 137 people and wounded 416. A few months later, in Brussels, an ISIS cell, composed of Belgian and French citizens of Moroccan and Algerian origin, killed 35 people and wounded 340 in two terrorist bombings at the airport and the Maelbeek metro station. Four months later, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian who had been legally residing in France for years, plowed a truck into the crowd watching the Bastille Day celebrations on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. In the attack, 87 people were killed and 458 were injured.

Horror in Milan: Undocumented Nigerian Man Beats and Rapes French Woman in Parking Lot

Only the intervention of the police allowed the woman to be rescued from the clutches of the undocumented immigrant who was assaulting her after beating her in Lampugnano

Another grim chapter in Milan’s security situation, despite the timely intervention of the Local Police, led by Commander Gianluca Mirabelli.

In fact, it was the police who yesterday rescued a woman of French origin from the clutches of a Nigerian man—later found to be an undocumented immigrant in Italy—who was raping her.

It happened in Lampugnano, in the late afternoon. The man was assaulting the victim against a fence where he had managed to drag her after attacking and beating her.

The Local Police caught him in the act, intervened, and apprehended him. The details of the incident are still being pieced together. This morning, Commander Mirabelli brought the case before the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Safety, which meets every Wednesday at the prefecture.

Name of the attacker: Salim El Koudri.

“Italian” of Moroccan origins…

I’m not talking about doctrine or beliefs, I’m talking about organizational structures.

For example, I like how Protestant denominations seem to have more structured and widespread Bible study courses for adults, they seem to be more tight knit communities, where believers are more involved in their church’s life, whereas Catholic communities tend to be much more hierarchical, and sometimes it can feel more like being “servants” to the church rather than members of a community.

Protestants communities also seem to me to be more interested in promoting various activities designed to keep their members involved in their church’s life.

“Submission in France: the Islamization of Creil and Rouen”

Creil elects a Muslim mayor, and in society Islamization has already reached a very advanced stage. And in Rouen as well — the city of the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and Jacques Hamel — a macabre tourist magnet sounds like a jihadist challenge.

The social architecture of contemporary France is not simply changing; it is undergoing a full-scale reprogramming. From Creil to Rouen, recent events are no longer isolated “incidents along the way,” but rather chapters in a vast narrative describing the identity fragmentation of a nation.

Creil, with its 37,000 inhabitants and a mosaic of 107 nationalities, represents the paradox of French progress. Once an impregnable stronghold of industrial socialism for more than a century, today the third-largest city in the Oise department — marked by a 25% unemployment rate and more than 50% public housing density — has become the epicenter of the tactical success of La France Insoumise (LFI). Here, in March, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement managed to merge left-wing demands with Islamic religious sentiment, creating a monolithic electoral bloc through the rise of the new Pakistani mayor, Omar Yaqoob.

Yaqoob celebrated the victory with words that sounded like a challenge: “We won — not me, but all Pakistanis.” His decision to join La France Insoumise in 2023, motivated by the party’s “international consistency” and support for the Palestinian cause, marks the culmination of decades of socialist policies which, in attempting to manage diversity, ultimately fostered de facto segregation. The model of mixité, far from encouraging assimilation, has given way to a defensive Islamic communitarianism in which group identity prevails over French citizenship.

In the shops of Creil, religion quietly inserts itself among the shelves. In some clothing stores, next to the cash register, one finds not promotional flyers but stacks of books on Muslim ethics and faith, regularly distributed by local associations. “It’s better to show that you are a good Muslim woman,” whispers one manager, describing a system of social control that begins as early as middle school.

Girls are expected to comply with an unwritten but rigid code of “modesty”: loose clothing, prohibition on socializing with boys, and the obligation to wear the veil. We are still in Creil, the French town that in 1989 first brought the issue of the Islamic headscarf in schools to the center of national debate. At that time, several Islamic associations sent their daughters to school with their heads covered, transforming a local episode into a nationwide controversy. The affair resonated so strongly that fifteen years later, in 2004, France passed the law banning conspicuous religious symbols in public schools.

It is a form of self-censorship fueled by the atmosphere of a small town, where every deviation is reported: “Your daughter was seen wearing a short skirt”; “Your son does not attend the mosque.” Those who do not conform are categorized, despised, and, in the worst cases, exposed to violence. A Turkish shopkeeper describes episodes of open coercion: veiled women reprimanding Christian female customers, often seemingly driven by the need to blend in so as not to feel oppressed or become “prey.”

The election of Omar Yaqoob was experienced by part of the city as a siege. Sophie Dhoury-Lehner, the Socialist candidate expected to inherit the legacy of former mayor Jean-Claude Villemain, concluded her campaign under police protection. Branded an “infidel” and targeted with death threats, she was forced to report directly to the police station.

Even the economic fabric is adapting to this new reality — or disappearing. Jérôme, a former baker at the Creil railway station, recounts years of hardship: despite offering halal products, he was constantly harassed because he also sold beer and ham. “A customer told me my chicken was not pure because it had been bought with money earned from pork sales,” he recalls. Faced with this ideological fanaticism, historic shops are closing one after another, replaced by kebab shops and barbers.

The reality of Creil — where, moreover, the new administration of the Pakistani mayor has promised to disarm the municipal police and dismantle video surveillance precisely as insecurity rises — reflects a France that has abandoned integration in favor of a multiculturalism that has turned into separation.

But the process of symbolic Islamization extends beyond the banlieues and reaches even the symbolic cities of French history. In Rouen, the city of the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, the discovery of altered souvenirs has reignited attention on Islamist ideological infiltration in the region. This is the same city where, in July 2016, Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old priest, was brutally murdered by two Islamist jihadists linked to ISIS while celebrating Mass. The horrific killing, carried out before a handful of worshippers, shocked all of France and became one of the most dramatic symbols of jihadist violence against European Christians.

Today, in the historic center of this very city, a tobacco shop was selling tourist magnets in which the emblem of Rouen had allegedly been deliberately vandalized: the fleur-de-lis of the monarchy replaced by the Islamic crescent, the Paschal Lamb decapitated — a macabre reference to jihadist executions — and the cross broken. After the student union UNI reported the matter, the shopkeeper’s reaction was emblematic: “If you want, call the police.” Despite later apologies from the printing company, which blamed “an intern’s mistake,” the disturbing image remains of what the article describes as a true “trophy of hate” intended to overturn the city’s Christian and national iconography.

From the veil imposed in Creil schools in 1989, to the murder of Father Jacques Hamel in 2016, to today’s symbolic profanations and economic submission, a clear picture emerges: that of a progressive Islamization of French society, advancing not only through violence, but through control of everyday life, symbols, the economy, and public space. According to this perspective, France has already moved beyond the phase of “challenge.” Parallel societies are no longer a hypothesis or an impending danger, but an established reality across large portions of the national territory, where submission, intimidation, and the gradual erasure of French culture and identity are portrayed as the new normal.

Naples — Massive brawl among migrants in Porta Capuana: 29-year-old stabbed to death. The incident involved dozens of foreign nationals who were in the area.

A 29-year-old man from Burkina Faso who had been seriously injured during the large-scale brawl that broke out in the afternoon in the Porta Capuana area, in central Naples, died later in the evening. The young man had been transported in critical condition to the Vecchio Pellegrini Hospital after being stabbed several times near the heart. Authorities have not ruled out the possibility that some wounds were inflicted with broken bottle shards.

The violent brawl involved dozens of foreign nationals and caused moments of serious tension in the neighborhood. The Polizia di Stato intervened with a massive deployment of officers, including riot police units.

Following the death of the young man, a 58-year-old foreign national detained by police officers was arrested on suspicion of murder by officers from the General Prevention and Public Rescue Office of the Naples Police Headquarters.

The incident has reignited concerns over public safety in the Porta Capuana area. The prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, ordered an immediate reinforcement of controls through the deployment of the Crime Prevention Unit of the Polizia di Stato and announced a new meeting of the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Security.

According to the Prefecture, the area has long been under observation for issues related to crime, drug dealing, and illegal street trading. Authorities have assured extraordinary security checks and constant monitoring to prevent further episodes of violence and urban decay.

Venice, 17-year-old Bangladeshi girl raped at home. Suspicions about a roommate

The teenager, who lives in an apartment with her three-month-old son, her partner, and other tenants, has filed a complaint. Carabinieri are investigating.

The alarm reached the Carabinieri of Venice on Saturday. A young Bangladeshi woman, not yet 18, and the mother of a newborn, reportedly contacted them, saying she had been sexually assaulted by a man who shares her apartment with her husband and young child. The tenant allegedly took advantage of the girl's husband's temporary absence to act against her will, to her detriment, leaving her no escape route, and in the presence of the newborn.

The Carabinieri are investigating the incident. No arrests have been made so far, but it could be a matter of hours, time, and further investigation. The fact that the violence occurred within the home walls may require more time and specific tests: this does not mean that the evidence is difficult to find. The police are working with the utmost confidentiality the matter requires, aiming to precisely reconstruct what happened. Of great importance are the medical reports produced by the emergency room, following the victim's hospitalization following the attack, under the strictest secrecy.

Meanwhile, the Lega party in the city, through the words of MEP Anna Maria Cisint and Venice city councilor Alex Bazzaro, harshly condemned what has emerged. "An unacceptable episode, a shameful rape that targeted a Bangladeshi minor. Another victim of the violence of radical Islam and likely of the rotten system based on hospitality. The same pattern I have already seen in Monfalcone. A Bangladeshi minor already with children: I wonder, a child bride? Raped by the host, also a Muslim." A presence behind which often hides a black market of illegal sublets and abusive bed spaces."

Rome — Bitten on the ear and shoulder during a robbery: the perpetrators were three Egyptian nationals aged 29, 24, and 23

Three Egyptian nationals aged 29, 24, and 23 have been arrested in Rome for a violent robbery against a 30-year-old Spanish tourist that took place during the night between last Sunday and Monday in the Termini area.

The three men, all homeless and with prior convictions for robbery and theft, approached the victim and his friend on Via Gioberti at around 3 a.m.

After an initial failed attempt, the two younger suspects chased the 30-year-old tourist to the entrance of the building on Via Napoleone III where he was staying. While one restrained him, the other violently bit him on the shoulder and right ear, tearing off his gold chain. The tourist was left bleeding and in shock. His friend fled in another direction.

The victim later went to the Viminale Police Station together with his friend and was then taken to the emergency department of San Giovanni Hospital, where he was discharged with a 10-day medical prognosis.

Over the coming months, he will have to undergo medical checks to rule out possible infectious diseases transmitted through the bites.

Investigators from the Viminale Police Station, thanks to the victim’s report and photographic identification, reviewed surveillance camera footage and confirmed the identities of the three suspects. Four days after the incident, officers located and stopped them on Via Amendola, just a few dozen meters from the scene of the robbery.

The two younger men were placed under arrest for aggravated robbery, while the 29-year-old is accused of attempted robbery. The three are currently awaiting immediate trial proceedings.