A 25-year-old was attacked last night in the Porta Ticinese area, one of the best-known places in the Milanese Movida , because he was gay, he told local police officers. He said he was surrounded by a dozen people around midnight and was also hit with a shard of a bottle .
He had a lacerated bruised head injury and severe chest trauma and was brought to hospital by 118 operators but is not in serious condition.
Local police officers are trying to trace the attackers who had already fled on arrival.