They beat him to death, without a motive, shooting the action with a smartphone and then posting what he had done on the chats
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Victim was a 17-year-old suffering from Down syndrome, savagely beaten, in May 2021,
by five 15-year-olds outside the Piazzale dei Partigiani metro station, in the Via Ostiense area of Rome.
For them, accused of injuries aggravated by abject motives and by having acted with cruelty, the trial could start after the Prosecutor's Office at the Juvenile Court has proceeded to close the investigation.
According to reports, the 17-year-old was lured into the trap by the girlfriend of one of the attackers.
The young man, completely unfounded, accused the very young victim of having sent inappropriate messages to her girlfriend.
The girl, who witnessed the beating without batting an eye, contacted the young man giving him an appointment, on May 2 last year, near the subway station.
There, the 17-year-old was violently kicked and punched by at least five people.
A scene immortalized in a video then posted in chats.
According to what was ascertained by the investigators, the six belong to the "18" gang, a gang in the Garbatella area, south of the capital.
Their "stunt" did not go unnoticed in the
A group from North Rome, after seeing the video, swore revenge.
According to those who investigate, the two gangs are the same ones that on 10 April 2021 were the protagonists of a megarissa in the central Villa Borghese.
Even in that case, the two groups had made an appointment, with random pretexts, simply to give it to each other.
During the investigations, the cell phones of the suspects were acquired: a world of threats, violence and even attempts of extortion for sexual purposes emerged from the smartphones.
On the phones also the discussions, with related threats, between the two "rival" groups after the violent beating that caused injuries to the face and body of the 17-year-old.
"Bring a Down, you have all of Rome against",