Naples—A man in his late 80s was brutally attacked with a club while walking his dog in the Rione Luzzatti neighborhood of Gianturco. The brutal and inexplicable attack occurred Sunday evening at Via Vesuvio 54 and left the entire neighborhood in shock.
The elderly man, struck from behind by a man armed with a stick, suffered multiple fractures to his ribs, a broken foot, and serious facial injuries, with blood coming from his nose and mouth. He is now hospitalized at Ospedale del Mare, where he will undergo surgery.
According to the daughter's complaint, the attacker was a non-EU citizen, already known in the area. The attack was apparently carried out without any motive, completely gratuitously. The elderly man was saved from the worst by the intervention of a family who witnessed the scene and scared the assailant away, but he managed to escape.
An episode that illustrates the lowest level of social degradation and urban violence: attacking a defenseless elderly person, without reason, means destroying not only a person but the very sense of safety of an entire community.
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The victim's daughter also pointed out a bureaucratic paradox: the authorities allegedly denied the possibility of filing a formal complaint until the man was released from the hospital, effectively preventing the immediate initiation of a formal investigation. "In the meantime," the woman complained, "the attacker continues to roam the area undisturbed."
Francesco Emilio Borrelli, a member of the Green-Left Alliance, who received the report, called the incident "an act of unprecedented and unacceptable violence."
An elderly man was brutally beaten while walking his dog, one of the most normal activities of daily life. It's absurd that the attacker is still free while the victim lies in the hospital. I urge the Prosecutor's Office and law enforcement to intervene immediately: the report must be filed immediately, even in the hospital, as is required for patients unable to move. A violent criminal cannot be left free due to bureaucratic quibbles.
Borrelli's appeal adds to the alarm raised by residents, who are calling for increased police presence and surveillance cameras in the neighborhood. "The safety of citizens cannot wait," the MP concludes, "especially that of the elderly, the first victims of a degradation that is becoming unbearable."
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