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February 21, 2020 Among young people it is called "Skullbreaker Challenge", a head-splitting trip: the victim is invited to jump in the middle of two while a third resumes with the mobile phone but at the moment of the jump he triggers to lose his balance. A "joke" which is then posted on social media and on Tik ToK. A serious case happened in the province of Bergamo, where a 14-year-old boy, a student in the first year of high school, was hospitalized on 17 February; the case is being dealt with by the Bergamo Police Headquarters, where the parents filed a complaint. The young man reported a cervical problem with 20 days of prognosis. Three friends were reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Juvenile Court of Brescia for injuries and private violence. The Judicial Authority will evaluate the anti-legal profiles of the diffusion of the video.

The Postal Police on its website invites you to stop this practice. "For a few days - we read in the Police website - alarming videos have been circulating on the net about a new" challenge "in which two boys work alongside a third and while this jumps, the others make a trip that determines the violent fall of the victim. wrong and very dangerous behavior: the sudden lack of support while jumping necessarily involves a fall without control which can lead to serious injuries such as fractures of limbs, fainting and cerebral hematomas ".

Therefore the police advise the kids to avoid getting involved in this 'challenge', and the parents to talk to the kids and to report any videos circulating on the net to www.commissariatodips.it.