"I bumped into those two guys by accident, it's true, but I apologized right away. It wasn't enough. I didn't think they'd hit me with a belt, though."
Speaking to the Corriere della Sera, it is the mother who was attacked on April 1st on a bus in Alessandria, in the presence of her pre-teen son, for whom the police flying squad identified and reported two boys, two minors of North African origin , two days ago.
"They hit me everywhere," continues the 34-year-old Nigerian woman . "In front of my son, who was crying and screaming. It was a nightmare."
The thirty-four-year-old recounts that that afternoon, after picking up her son from school, she boarded the crowded public transport and remained standing. The driver slammed on the brakes, causing her to fall right into those boys . The two began pushing the child, the woman says, so she intervened to defend him. "First, they insulted me with words in our language," she added. "Then one of them took off his seatbelt and started hitting me. The other one took it out of his backpack ."
Those present filmed the scene . "I didn't understand the motive, I'd never seen them before," the woman continued. "They hit me everywhere: on my stomach, my legs, my head. I still have bruises all over my body. The bus stopped and they dragged me out, continuing to beat me. Then, luckily, the police arrived. They saved my life. When I get on the bus now, I'm afraid someone might hurt me, because there's no one to help you." The young man who filmed the incident explained that he tried to intervene, but held back because the attackers "had cutting weapons."
(Unioneonline)
