Green MP Borrelli surrounded by teenage scooter gangs in Secondigliano

The Green Party MP, Francesco Emilio Borrellistated in a note that he was surrounded and insulted by a ‘paranza’ of minors on scooters performing wheelies, a typical attitude of challenge and claiming territorial dominance in the criminal code.

The incident, the MP said, took place in Secondigliano where he recently went after the stabbing of a 15-year-old by a peer.

«In Secondigliano the situation has gotten out of hand. Entire parts of the neighborhood are in the hands of criminal youth gangs, armed with knives and guns, ready to attack opponents even for trivial reasons. Territorial control is exercised through patrols on scooters, ready to turn into ‘stese’ when necessary, and anyone arriving from outside is immediately identified, isolated and threatened. What happened to us as soon as we arrived on the scene to verify the serious incident of the stabbing of a minor, yet another just hours after the tragedy on Corso Umberto where a 15-year-old lost his life, struck by a bullet fired by a rival gang. The truth is that the level of danger regarding the violence of youth gangs in the city has been far exceeded,” Borrelli continues, calling for “a strong state response to this drive, to prevent new tragedies, by using a hard line, weapons to search and seize, and hold the parents of these young people accountable for their educational irresponsibilities»