A school massacre is evoked on social media, a 14-year-old reported

To escape investigations and social media censorship, he used the Cyrillic alphabet: a ploy that was not enough for a 14-year-old to avoid a complaint for spreading news and information with a violent and apologetic content. Yet another story of violence involving a minor, intercepted by the police before it had further consequences, happened in the Catania area and has as its protagonist a boy accused of having posted comments on social media with references to the commission of massacres and acts of terrorism and photos in which he showed himself with a military helmet and a video camera.

The investigation arose from a report from the Postal Police Service and Cyber ​​Security of Rome who reported everything to the Etna Digos. The agents identified the author of the account and reported him. Seized, after a search at home, were clothing - t-shirts with discriminatory phrases and swastikas - a military helmet, handwritten notes and a rudimentary bulletproof vest. Searches about weapons and the operation of guns were found in the minor's smartphone history. But the investigation is not considered concluded: technical checks on the IT material, delegated by the Prosecutor's Office for minors of Catania to the staff of the Postal Police COSC and the Digos of the Police Headquarters, have made it possible to identify other elements considered of investigative interest which will be the subject of further investigation.

The episode brings to mind recent news events such as that of the 12-year-old from Trapani who, in May, tried to stab the technology teacher in front of his classmates. An attack filmed by a video camera that the minor had brought to school and announced on the student's TikTok profile. The victim managed to immobilize the student in front of the other terrified students. Then the Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation to find out if he had been instigated. From reading some comments on his profile it emerged that several of his followers knew what he had in mind. Many similarities with the attack on the teacher from the province of Bergamo which occurred a few months earlier, with the magistrates who opened an investigation to discover any connections between the two gestures.

Just a month ago, another minor aged just 13 stabbed the literature teacher in a school in Rome. After entering the building he went to the bathroom, took two knives with 20 centimeter blades from his backpack and turned on the live social broadcast with a camera placed on a helmet. He entered the classroom last and immediately attacked the teacher "whom he hated", spraying her with stinging spray and hitting her with three blows to the side. A companion, a young man of Congolese origin, then intervened to stop him. The investigators ascertained that the boy had created a group on TikTok and from there had triggered a sort of countdown: "- 5 hours", he had posted during the night.