2024-04-20 06:52:44
MERANO. He intervened to respond to the bullying of man who annoyed passengers and who then threw himself at a boy, hitting him repeatedly. He managed to immobilize him, but in the struggle he took a blow headbutt to the face which gave him a broken nose and a twenty-day prognosis. “I reacted because that young man who was beaten for no apparent reason could have been my son,” he says M.M., 53 year old from Merano, administrative officer. An instinctive reaction, his. “But I was also hurt by a certain indifference among those who were traveling in the vehicle and who could have helped me.”
The story
It is around 6.30pm on Tuesday when MM gets on the bus together with his partner in via delle Corse, near the Ariston gallery. The line is there 210 which leads towards Sinigo and Lana/Postal, passing through Maia Bassa. What happens next is a matter of an amen. A man gets on, probably upset. «It was immediately clear that he was looking for an excuse to start a fight. He started bothering some passengers. A lady in her sixties answered him, and an argument broke out. At that point a boy, probably about twenty years old, intervened and in response he was attacked.”
Someone begins to shout to stop but to no avail, while the bus continues its journey and the attacker silences all those who start a reply. «I saw the terror on the face of the boy who had tried to intervene, and at that moment I saw my son. It could have been him. I went towards the man and he immediately punched me on the chin.”
The attacker is of robust build and launches more blows. The fight ensues. «Somehow I managed to land him and immobilize him. At that moment I was confident that someone else would come to my aid, among the passengers who could have done so, and there were some. But I noticed indifference. A fact that hurts and worries me.”
The complaint
A few minutes passed after the start of the chaos when the bus slowed down its engine speed to stop at the Negrelli school stop in via Roma. «I loosened my grip, it seemed that the situation had calmed down. In an instant I was instead hit with a headbutt in the face. Everything went dark. At that moment I would have been at his mercy. My companion’s alertness distracted the attacker, who jumped out of the bus, losing the glasses and headphones he was wearing.”
The 53-year-old also gets off the bus, with a swollen face, blood dripping from his nose and a sore hand. He is thanked by the attacked boy. He goes home but the next morning, Wednesday, he is forced to go to the emergency room where he is diagnosed with one closed fracture of the nasal bones and an interphalangeal fracture in the right hand. Released from Tappeinerfiled a complaint with the police who, based on the testimony and the elements acquired, are on the trail of the attacker who is already known to the police.
2024-04-20 06:52:44