Murder of a 15-year-old in Naples, summit at the Prefecture: “The age of the young victims decreases day by day”

The warning of the prefect Michele di Bari: "There is a need for a social response, the children must be taught a sense of values"

NAPLES – – For the prefect of Naples Michele di Bari, after the murder of a 15-year-old that occurred last night in Corso Umberto I, there is “concern” but also “a lot of will to address these issues”.

Today, during a provincial committee for public order and safety convened immediately after the criminal event, “we have addressed these issues with great responsibility and determination. On the one hand – explained di Bari – there will be a response in terms of prevention activities by the police forces, which I thank, with a series of targeted, extraordinary, high-impact services, the use of dog units, everything that is necessary to control the territory. On the other hand, strong activity by the judiciary. The other pillar on which this whole affair rests cannot but do without an appeal to the city”.

The appeal that the prefect makes concerns the fact that the protagonists of episodes of this kind are “boys whose age decreases day by day. This is absolutely not good, this concerns everyone. There is a great institutional chorus, today everyone has tried to affirm that there is a need for a social response, which this community is also giving in a strong way”.

“AI GAGAZZI MUST IMPARTITO IL SENSO DEI VALORI”

“I am confident that the city will respond to an appeal in which in social terms there is a need to reclaim educational tools by everyone, so that children are taught a sense of values. If today a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old is killed it means – again from Bari – that the life of a child is an almost annihilated value. We must fight and oppose these value-related events and this is the commitment that we have undertaken”.

The prefect also recalls having promoted “a series of meetings on the educational pact with the mayors, with the parish priests, with the many agencies that deal with these issues. I believe that the educational pact is one of the tools to use”.

Di Bari then, answering reporters on the sidelines of the meeting, states: “I believe that what is being done is never enough with respect to the objective, because the bar must always be raised. If a 15-year-old boy dies, we must ask ourselves why it happens and we must seek the answers in a story that has its roots in a particular context, which has to do with an educational system that probably needs to provide a few more answers. But it is an activity that we are doing: there is a weakening with respect to the use of weapons, the data has improved in the last six months and this data is positive”.

“IL POSSIBLE PER INDIGUARE RESPONSIBLE”

The prefect of Bari then added: “I believe that, as always in these cases, everything possible is being done to identify the responsible individuals”. To reporters who asked him for information about the dynamics of the crime, the prefect replied: “I believe that this should be brought to the attention of the judicial authorities. We have no expertise in this – added di Bari -, we have expertise in prevention and that is where we are working. I can only say that I am confident, because, as has always happened in the past, here the judicial authority identifies those responsible within a few weeks. There is confidence in the activity that, with great professionalism, the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office is doing as well as the Naples Prosecutor’s Office. We must trust and we must have faith”.

 MANFREDI: “GREAT ATTENTION TO VERY YOUNG ARMED”

At the end of the order and security committee, the mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi also spoke: “The circumstance of having these minors, very young, who often move around armed at night clearly gives us great concern and requires great attention. There was a very timely intervention by the prefect to immediately convene this committee and it clearly emerges that we are faced with a problem that must be addressed with great determination”, underlined the mayor, highlighting that attention “must be aimed at prevention”. “We – added Manfredi – are making a large investment in cameras, both in maintenance and in another 350 cameras that we will put in the city in a few months. But clearly there is also a problem of controlling the territory during the night, which requires a specific logistical organization”.