He was attacked and beaten by a group of 15-year-olds who kicked and punched him and also filmed the attack.

Victim of the violence of the pack a 12-year-old boy attacked in front of a shopping center in Miano in Naples, a neighborhood that acts as a hinge between Capodimonte, Scampia and the municipalities of the hinterland north of the capital. The boy, who is not serious, told everything to his parents, who did not hesitate to report the attack to the police: for them, they explained, the bruises on their son's body are like scars on the skin that will never heal.

According to a first reconstruction, the 12-year-old was first pushed, then thrown to the ground and put in the condition of not being able to react. Finally beaten in a brutal way. When they let go, the boy got up and made a quick run home. It has not yet been ascertained why the group attacked him.

The story was announced by the Green parliamentarian, Francesco Emilio Borrelli, who says he learned about the matter from the teenager's own parents, who immediately denounced the fact. The violence was also filmed and posted on social media. "We have sent the video to the police so that the incident can occur and identify all the attackers who will have to be severely punished," Borrelli said.

Unfortunately, it is not the first episode of violence involving teenagers that occurs in the neighborhood.

Only yesterday, in Miano, a teacher was attacked by a 13-year-old - an eighth grade student - who punched her in the face. It would have been a raptus, a gesture without any reason following which the teacher - in the chair for over 30 years - said she was "mortified". In August last year, however, a 15-year-old boy was injured by four people riding two scooters.

In a city and in a province, that of Naples, where the extent of early school leaving is alarming (yesterday the news of 105 parents reported by the carabinieri in Pozzuoli and Quarto for not having respected the obligation to educate their minor children), juvenile deviance is worrying, the fact that more and more children leave home armed.

A theme addressed today, in a conference, by the prosecutor of the juvenile court of Naples, Maria De Luzenberger, according to whom "we need an 'army' of social workers, repression alone is not enough". "I hear a lot about the problem of young people, baby gangs, but who really works for minors? Families? Very often they are not adequate families and not even through any fault of their own. The state must stop thinking only about repression. I am a magistrate: repression must be done, but it must not be the only tool to change things," De Luzenberger said.