Sixteen-year-old hits homeless man in the face with a bar. In Sarzana, the boy is accused of attempted murder.

The reasons and dynamics of what happened are being examined by the SarZana carabinieri. The young man said he was scared, thinking that the homeless man wanted to take a knife out of his pocket. He would have hit him with an iron bar picked up shortly before, he said.  Reproduction of this article means the use of ANSA’s image.