A trap date to take him to an isolated street and beat him up, with a baseball bat. This is what happened in Ostia, in the Idroscalo area, where a man was the victim of two men. The reason for the beating, according to investigations by the Carabinieri of Ostia who blocked the aggressors seriously suspected of the crime of attempted aggravated extortion in competition, would be a drug debt of one thousand euros.
The events took place last January 15th. Today the news of the measure taken against the two violent. It all started when the soldiers of the Ostia station were called by some passers-by for a dispute in the street between three people. In the meantime, the 41-year-old had pulled out a baseball bat to hit his target. Having seen the carabinieri, the man tried to escape, also trying to get rid of the broken club, thrown into a cavity.
From the immediate investigations, however, it emerged that it was not a trivial street dispute, but that the victim, with an excuse, had been accompanied by a 31-year-old, an acquaintance of his, in an isolated street in the Idroscalo area. Waiting for him in the trap appointment, the 41-year-old man. According to the reconstruction made of the weapon, the forty-one year old armed with a club wanted to force him to pay drug debts, not yet paid.
A probable punitive expedition commissioned to scare the victim to force her to pay, interrupted thanks to the intervention of the investigators who arrested both the alleged attacker and the 31-year-old accomplice, accused of having had an active role in deceiving the victim to the ‘appointment.
The court of Rome, following the validation judgment, therefore subjected the 41-year-old to pre-trial detention in prison and the 31-year-old to the precautionary measure of the obligation of residence and presentation in the barracks.
