Attempted murder : this is the crime that the Prosecutor of Naples North, coordinated by Maria Antonietta Troncone, complains to Pasquale Pezzella , 36, who was detained last night as part of the investigation into the assault against Nicola Liguori , the man set on fire while he was video calling his girlfriend .
Investigations are underway on the matter by the investigators of the Mobile Squad of the Naples Police Headquarters and the police station of Frattamaggiore and the investigators consider it very probable that the episode is attributable to the theft of a scooter .
The victim , who struggles between life and death in the hospital, was doused with flammable liquid and then set on fire while, sitting on a bench, he was video calling his girlfriend.
The body was enveloped in a few moments by the stake: his brother, arrived on the spot, took him to the hospital in Frattamaggiore with burns on his body.
Liguori was then transferred to the Cardarelli burn center and then to the Policlinico di Bari; for him reserved prognosis and pharmacological coma.
(Unioneonline / vl)
