• Rome, under investigation by video investigators after reporting homophobic assault

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March 23, 2021 The video of the attack in recent days has been around the web, arousing outrage and bipartisan solidarity.

Kicks and punches delivered to two guys in a Rome metro station for a kiss.

Now the manager has a name.



The man who suddenly attacked a young gay couple in the Valle Aurelia station last February 26 was identified and reported by the police.

He is a 31-year-old Roman with a police history who works in Jesolo and was headed to the province of Rome to go to his parents' home.

He is accused of aggravated injuries.



Thanks to the video shot with a mobile phone and spread on the web, the man was recognized by the Venice police officers who had identified him that same day, a few hours before the attack, inside the airport because he had had a quarrel with a woman.

Due to the dispute he lost his flight to Rome and was forced to reach the capital by train.



Shortly after he was again checked by the agents of the Polfer di Mestre from where he took a train bound for Rome.

Arriving in Termini he got on the metro and reached the Valle Aurelia stop where, just before 10pm, the couple was attacked.

From there he boarded another train to reach his parents' house.



The investigations began on March 3, when the police collected the victims' reports.

The agents of the XIII Aurelio District, directed by Alessandro Gullo, acquired the images recorded by the video surveillance cameras inside the station and, after retrieving the information from the airport colleagues, went to the parents' home last night. , but the man had returned to Jesolo.



Localized by cell phone, he was tracked down by policemen from the Jesolo Police Station while he was traveling around the city.

After the photo signaling, the victims recognized him.



"While I was kissing my partner, we suddenly heard a man yelling from the platform opposite: 'What are you doing? Aren't you ashamed?'. After replying: 'What do you care?'

and having resumed kissing with my partner, the guy crossed the tracks and joined us, first striking my partner in the eye, "Jean Pierre, an LGBT activist, told Gaynews.