Naples, a message to his mother and then launched from the 10th floor. Hear from the dead boy’s friends

“Mom I love you, I have a hooded man in front, I don’t have time. This is the text of the text message left from the cell phone of the 11-year-old boy who died in Naples on the night between Monday and Tuesday, who fell from the balcony of a house on the 10th floor of a stately building in Via Mergellina. The Naples prosecutor’s office is investigating instigation to suicide, and through the protected procedures for listening to minors, has already collected the first minutes of baby friends. Looking for traces or ideas that help to understand what happened and why.

The assistant attorney Raffaello Falcone, head of the family crimes and vulnerable groups section, ordered the police to seize and explore the computer devices used by the minor: an old tablet that was once used by the father, in which the minor had created his own independent account , a game console, the mobile phone from which the text message originated. It was found in the house, on the ground. The sms was read father’s cell phone recipient when the police were already at the house for the research. The time of the message preceded by a few minutes the sound of the thud of the little body and the desperate cries of parents and neighbors. Operations center 118 received the emergency call a quarter of an hour before one in the morning. The health personnel who intervened could only determine death and spread a white sheet.

If the suicide was, as seems likely, the text message is the result of the anguish and fear that preceded it. But without a doubt, the autopsy ordered by the prosecutors will be decisive in establishing, based on the dynamics of the escape and the injuries suffered, whether the child has thrown himself into the void of his own free will. The parents, as injured parties, will appoint partial experts to participate in the autopsy examination, coordinated by their lawyers, Maurizio Sica and Lucilla Longone.

But let’s go back to the seizure of computer media. It is here that we must leave, to try to orient ourselves in the darkness of this painful and absurd story. From the analysis of chats, from IT platforms in which the child has sailed, from application that I would download and use. To see if someone has induced the child to do this gesture. The black and hidden side of the internet is full of whores hiding behind fake profiles or disguisesand programs that, in the form of simulation games or others, invite you to pursue yourself in extreme social challenges. Situations that incite self-harm.

The boy from Naples was healthy and serene. Parents are described as two loving, caring and supportive professionals, taking care that their child makes a correct and healthy use of the mobile phone and the PC. The 11-year-old girl lived in an ideal environment to grow up in the shelter. However, something happened, and if it happened to him, people close to the family comment bitterly, it can happen to anyone. Fear, which is at the same time a carefully trodden research trail, is what manipulator managed to sneak into the child’s life through the web. And then he managed to make him fall into the darkness that preceded his escape from the tenth floor of a bourgeois building in Naples.