A 12-year-old French boy suffers from head trauma after being hit by a trash can from a height of 20 meters on the beach in northern Italy where he slept in tents with his family.
"It's a criminal act"
"The prognosis remains reserved and the patient is being observed in the department of intensive pediatric therapy to assess his state of consciousness and the possible neurological damage following the shock," says the Pediatric Hospital Gaslini Genova, in Liguria, in a statement quoted Sunday by the Italian media.
"It's a criminal act, we hope the culprits will be found, my wife and I want to make a call: if someone has been to the scene, let him go to the police," said the father. of the young boy at the local newspaper of Genoa, Il Seccolo XIX . The family, originally from Haute-Savoie, according to Italian media, includes two other children aged 14 and 15 who were also sleeping on the beach of Bergeggi, not far from Savona, in Liguria.