A 9-year-old boy was hanged this afternoon in Bari, at his home in the San Girolamo district.
According to the first investigations of the Police, intervened on signaling of 118, it would be suicide.
The ordinary and juvenile prosecutors were informed of the incident.
The alarm was raised by the parents, who found their son unconscious with a rope around his neck.
On the spot there are agents of the Flying Squads, the Flying Squad and the Scientific Police.
Pm seizes electronic devices
- The prosecutor on duty in Bari Angela Maria Morea has ordered the seizure of all electronic devices in the house in the San Girolamo district of Bari where this afternoon a 9-year-old child hanged in circumstances still under investigation.
From the electron devices we will try to ascertain if there are traces that help to reconstruct the minutes that preceded the gesture and if there is a possible connection with online games, as happened in recent days in Palermo.
The police on the spot are also trying to reconstruct the dynamics of the facts.
That is, if, as is believed on the basis of the first checks, it was suicide.
Ronzulli, if challenge obscurate social
- "After the case of Palermo, in Bari another child, only 9 years old, committed suicide with a rope around his neck. The judiciary is investigating and has seized all the computer devices that the minor had access to understand if once again we are faced with a tragedy due to the absurd challenges in which children participate on social media. If this were the case the situation would be even more alarming than suspected and there would be no alternative to the closure, at least temporarily, of the platforms on which these challenges take place and that the managers have a duty to remove all content dangerous for the safety of minors as quickly as possible ".
Thus, in a note, the president of the parliamentary committee for childhood and adolescence.
