After yet another robbery and a long list of complaints and reports, Bilial, the Moroccan minor who has been the protagonist of numerous assaults in Milan in recent days, has been arrested.
The boy, who a bone examination revealed was under 14, is not indictable but due to the seriousness and repetition of the crime, the magistrate ordered his arrest and transfer to the CPA of the Turin prison.
Last night he was stopped around 2.30 am, not far from Milan Central Station together with an accomplice, a 16 year old Moroccan with whom he attacked two Italians aged 20 and 31, snatching their gold necklaces.
Bilial the other day told Corriere della Sera 'they can't arrest me, I'm free'
“I don’t want to be locked up. I like being free, wandering around. I don’t need anything”: 12-year-old Bilal, who has a remarkable resume of robberies, explained yesterday to Corriere della Sera why he runs away from the communities where the carabinieri and the police take him every time they catch him. And it happens often: five times in eight days.
The last one took him to Genoa and he, punctually, came back by train. Bilal is smart, thin but already 65 meters tall, with the hair of the boys older than him. His story has parts of the incredible and some contradictions. He says he is from Fez, where his father has a café, and that he sends money to his family, who did not want him to leave Morocco.
But “I only wanted Europe”. The journey he describes goes through Spain, includes a year in France, stops in Germany, Denmark and Holland. Then, three or four months ago, the arrival in Italy at “Rome Termini, Naples, Turin Porta Susa, Genoa. Venice Santa Lucia, beautiful”, because he defines the cities with the name of the stations.
And in Milan he also hangs out in the area of the Central Station where he was stopped several times and where, he says, he buys Rivotril, a psychotropic drug, of which he also has some pills in his backpack. Bilal, who has scabies, says he sleeps with friends in Rho, that he has support, shows 600 euros that he just stole from someone who was sleeping on the train from Liguria and explains that part of it will be sent to his family. In Milan he says he is looking for a friend, Adil, 14 years old.
“They arrested him more than a month ago. Help me find him, he’s like my brother. I’m here in Milan for him, I can pay for his lawyer, I can have my parents send me money to pay him,” he says. He admits to stealing and knows that “they have to let me go, no one can arrest me.”
Article published on 20 October 2022 - 13:45
