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12 November 2019The boys would have oppressed a disabled pensioner. Now they are accused of extortion, theft, robbery and persecutory acts against a 61-year-old man from Sava, in the province of Taranto , suffering from mental illness. The Carabinieri arrested 18 young people, 8 of them are minors, and notified 2 prohibition orders.

The operation has similarities with the case of Antonio Cosimo Stano, the 66-year-old from Manduria suffering from mental illness who died on April 23 after suffering assaults and harassment from several groups of young people who then shared their raids on Whastapp. For the Stano affair in 16 they ended up on trial: 3 adults and 13 minors (for which the trial was requested).

Another case was discovered in Caserta where a 79-year-old was kicked out of his apartment and segregated in a garage by his son and daughter-in-law who did not want to be "disturbed".

However, the victim, a widowed retired construction worker, told everything to the local Afragola Police, in the province of Naples, obtaining the opening of an investigation by the Naples North Public Prosecutor's Office (Caserta).

The investigation resulted in an order of removal from the apartment for the elder's son and daughter-in-law and the two were forbidden to approach their family for a kilometer.