Poggiomarino– A swollen eye, a face marked by blood, and a uniform—that of the Cosmopol—that becomes a silent witness to an afternoon of unprecedented violence.
It's January 3rd, 17:54 PM, when the EAV Poggiomarino station becomes the scene of a brutal beating. The victim is Raffaele, a security guard guilty only of doing his duty: attempting to protect the new train that had entered service on the route from vandals.
The complaint comes directly from the victim in a video shared on social media, a raw document that's making the rounds online. Raffaele, with a firm voice despite his shock and injuries, not only shows the signs of the attack, but also names the alleged perpetrators.
"I was attacked by a boy named Alfonso and another named Attilio," the security guard states in the video. "They are the people who have been painting 90% of EAV trains for years and who also defaced the new train in Sarno."
The story takes on even more dramatic tones when the security guard reports the sense of abandonment he experienced in those frantic minutes: «I'm trying to call the police and 118 and they don't answer.
I will use this video for legal purposes, to protect myself against these people and against those who do not protect me within the company." These are heavy words, like boulders, which open a Pandora's box regarding the safety of security personnel.
Relaunching the appeal and giving voice to the profession is Giuseppe Alviti, president of the National Association of Security Guards. "I am shocked by the video of this young man," thunders Alviti in an official statement. The union representative speaks bluntly of a "social slaughter," denouncing the extremely high risks to which workers in the sector are exposed daily.
Our thoughts inevitably turn to more tragic precedents. "We have repeatedly called attention to the need to increase the number of security guards at stations," Alviti concludes, "to prevent what happened to Ciccio Della Corte from happening again."
The reference is to the security guard brutally beaten to death by a gang of minors at the Scampia metro station in 2018 (he later died in 2019), a still-open wound that episodes like the one in Poggiomarino risk making tragically current again.
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Comments (63)
This is why we have to go to pieces for the mess we make.
The guard wants to protect us and the others beat him up, but is this normal??????
Exemplary punishments
This government, to save them and the hooligans, makes laws in favor of this delinquency for fear that they will go to jail after their mandate.
Giancarlo Rossi, it's not about judging but about always safeguarding your own life, because it's not worth replacing it in exchange for...
I certainly take my hat off to Omar Iqbal… ask him if he went back would he do it anyway?
Dario Arcopinto, then you don't do this job. Go make pizzas.
Dario Arcopinto This doesn't matter now, talk later to say what
Beautiful people
Arrest them and 5 years in prison without penalty
How shameful
A shitty town, thirty thousand inhabitants, there is not a barracks with ten policemen if something happens to you they have to intervene like Ottaviano ridiculous,.. You have to die first..
Death penalty
Let's wake up, let's defend ourselves. Wake up people.
What a shame, he's a family man doing his duty, shame on you!
The government that was supposed to give us so much security. Please vote for them again.
Arrest him and throw away the keys, only then can we solve the problems of this country
BUILD NEW PRISONS...RUN BY THE ARMY...AND IMMEDIATELY JAIL THOSE WHO COMMIT CRIME
What's the point of arming these poor kids if they can't defend themselves from shit?
Find them and let them rot in prison for at least 30 years…
It's truly sad to hear about these things happening. Security guards should be protected while doing their job, but instead they find themselves in very dangerous situations and without help. I hope the authorities intervene.
Gaetano De Rosa, that is, the left, you mean? I remind you that the current government is not left-wing, it has been sitting in Montecitorio for more than 3 years now, so it does not allow the police to use weapons, because the left forced it? Let me understand this clearly.
Let me understand the question
Fabio Varone yes, but first a “many” beatings!
I will always blame the state, as long as the laws don't change, nothing good will ever happen.
€800 a month and dangerous shifts, throw them to the Nile crocodiles
Alberto Ottaviani and this is
Luciana Pausini also a "coat" of beatings... damned cowards then... 3 4 against one...
But this law is not ashamed that it protects criminals like them and not those who work
My father always told me that no victim is ever completely innocent.
Liar, it's the magistrates who let these people go free. Liar and in bad faith.