Still gender violence, still children witnessing the anger of one of the parents.
It happens in Cercola, during the night. In via Matilde Serao someone argues, many people scream, someone dials 112.
The carabinieri from the radiomobile section of Torre del Greco will answer the call.
When they arrive on the street they follow the excited voices, some residents point to an apartment.
On the landing, on the second floor of a building, a man wields a garden shears and hits the door of a house with his shoulders.
He is agitated, presumably under the effect of drugs and the military manage, with great difficulty, to disarm him. At home, a terrified woman holds her three children aged 14, 12 and 6 years: they cry, they had feared the worst.
In handcuffs will end up a local 39-year-old, the victim's ex-partner and father of the children.
According to what was reconstructed by the military, episodes of this type were frequent. The man was almost always driven by drug withdrawal and by a morbid jealousy never quelled even after the breakup, the harassment was daily for years.
This time what triggered the 39-year-old's anger seems to have been the failure to deliver a meal. In fact, despite the separation, the woman continued to prepare lunch and dinner for him and, every day, she took care to bring it to his house. That evening an impediment had not allowed her to deliver dinner, triggering the man's fury.
The 39-year-old is now in jail, awaiting trial.