Botti: in the Neapolitan area a woman wounded in the head by a bullet, a 13-year-old boy died in Asti

NAPLES (January 1, 2021) – Among the eight wounded on New Year’s Eve, between Naples and the province, there is a woman hit in the head by a stray bullet, which exploded during shooting after midnight. She was in the house of her elderly mother in Mugnano (Naples) when, looking from the balcony, she was hit by the blow that wounded her occiput. It was a near tragedy: the woman is hospitalized in the Cardarelli, without danger of life, with the bullet in her hand. It will be operated in the next few days to extract it.

Tragic new year, however, in Asti. A 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight from injuries to the abdomen caused by a firecracker. It happened in the nomadic camp of Via Guerra, where the boy lived. Rescued immediately and transferred to the hospital, he arrived at the emergency room already in cardiac arrest and for him there was nothing to do. The carabinieri intervened on the spot.

The end of 2020, in Milan and in the Milanese area, seems to mark a historical low of blows and injuries compared to the average. According to the first data in the transition to 2021 much less was celebrated with approximately “half of the 118 interventions for a normal New Year”: the only two serious episodes concern a man who lost two fingers, yesterday afternoon, groping for a firecracker, and two gunshot wounded, both Albanians, during an episode – according to the first findings – criminal.

In total, there were 229 firefighter interventions tonight attributable to the New Year celebrations, a sharp decrease compared to last year, when there were 686, a change linked to restrictive measures taken to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. The highest number also this year in Lazio 45 (last year they were 171), Campania 40, Puglia 24, Veneto 19, Lombardy 18, Sicily 17, Liguria 16.