Violence in Rome: Couple attacked in Corviale with guns and baseball bats.

They surrounded them in the middle of the night. Corvial, near Largo Emilio Quadrelli. A Couple she was a victim of theambush.

The man, the first to be attacked, was approached by a group of people who tried to make him fall from a low wall by squeezing him by the neck, and then hit him with kicks and punches and, subsequently, to the arm with a baseball bat. Only when the victim, a 52-year-old Roman, managed to escape the blows, did he turn around to look for his girlfriend.

He noticed that the womens it was threatened with a gun to the face. “It was very similar to the ones the Police use, but maybe smaller” the young woman declared when filing a complaint with the investigators of the XI San Paolo District, who are investigating to reconstruct what happened on Monday night.

The victims alerted 112 only after taking refuge at home and the police intervened immediately. Themens, meanwhile hospitalized at first aid, reported a seven-day prognosis.

The investigations started by the State Police have allowed, in just over 24 hours, to locate and intercept, thanks to the descriptions provided by the victims, 3 of the attackers, who were taken by surprise at their respective homes. The house searches allowed the discovery, in one's house of the 3 – a 19 year old Roman – one electric stunner fully functional, munitions of various types and weaponry replicas, including the one presumably used to threaten the woman: without the red cap, but similar to the one supplied to law enforcement.

The three individuals – a 19-year-old, a 25-year-old and a 48-year-old Roman – have been reported to the judicial authorities and further investigations are underway to reconstruct the dynamics of the episode and bring to justice the other members of the group who took part in the attack.