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Roma03 April 2015The taxi driver who was beaten by a 64-year-old man in Piazza Barberini, in the heart of Rome, in front of his son suffering from Down syndrome, was reported for injuries on Wednesday. The man, who had escaped aboard the taxi after the attack, was tracked down by agents of the Castro Pretorio police station, thanks to video cameras on the street that took over the scene. According to what has been learned, when he was found he was working regularly, as if nothing had happened.

Meanwhile, the victim, a 64 year old, is still hospitalized in serious condition in the intensive care unit of the San Giovanni hospital. For the beatings he suffered a fracture of the femur, head trauma and several wounds.

The story
According to the reconstruction of the investigators, the beating was triggered because the man had stopped the car, with his son Down on board, between two taxis near a pharmacy. "You can't stay here," the taxi driver would have told him, to which the man tried to explain "I only have to buy medicine in the pharmacy for my son and leave". But the enraged taxi driver got out of his car and attacked him by dropping him on the asphalt, then got into the taxi and left.