Beatings and insults for months and months, then the last cruel challenge: "now throw yourself in the Piave".
On the other hand, the will to live of an eleven-year-old won against the bullying carried out against him by three schoolmates between the ages of 12 and 14.
The boy told his parents about the harassment he suffered a year ago both in the classroom and in the school bus and yesterday they filed a complaint against the three teenagers for bullying and instigating suicide.
A continuous dripping made of beatings, abuses, always with the inevitable cell phone in hand to record the stunts.
"Better to die than go to school" the young man said through tears to his family, who live in the Treviso hinterland, after the last episode of the trio, with an invitation to throw themselves into the river.
It is the victim's father who is now reconstructing the events.
"It had been a long time since my son had detached himself from these friendships-he confirms-he He had seen that his companions often indulged in behaviors that he considered wrong, such as ringing the bells and then running away. It was not a suitable company" .
But the bullies triggered retaliation, including name calling for being the son of a couple of whom one immigrated.
The exasperated mother had to pick her son up from school.
Now the family points the finger at the school management, whose behavior is considered disappointing towards the culprits.
"In my day they would have summoned the boys (who attend the second and eighth grade in the same institution as the victim) and they would have talked to him, indeed they would have given him a real lecture with the parents present. And instead - accuses the man - all they have been able to tell us is the path they intend to follow. A path that I believe is steeped in bureaucracy".
No possibility even to return to the classroom to continue following the lessons, protecting the eleven-year-old.
"We were told - explains the parent - that it was not possible since they could not guarantee the presence of a person to protect her safety".
A script of adolescent bullying not too different in Andria, where two minors aged 15 and 14 were reported on charges of attempted aggravated robbery in competition and aggravated injuries.
Also in this case it would be a matter of abuse episodes that occurred in the same city against a thirteen year old boy, hit by a slap in the face and some shoves, who was later discharged from hospital with a seven-day prognosis.
In this case it was the refusal to deliver 2 euros to a food vending machine that unleashed the anger against the thirteen-year-old, who tried in vain to escape.
After having noticed the anomaly of the boys' comings and goings, even with the acquisition of images from the video surveillance systems, a police station reconstructed what happened, identifying the two alleged perpetrators.