Clochard killed in Naples: the violence filmed by the cameras, two sixteen year olds accused of murder

Murder aggravated by cruelty and futile reasons. This is the charge for the two 16-year-old boys arrested in the investigation into the clochard killed in Naples. The 43-year-old Ghanaian, Frederick Akwasi Adofo, was beaten to death in Pomigliano d’Arco. The turning point in the investigations came thanks to the images of the video surveillance cameras in the Via Principe di Piemonte area where the beating took place in the night between Sunday and Monday.

The juvenile prosecutor, Maria de Luzenberger Milnernsheim, explained in a press release: “The provision is the result of an uninterrupted investigative activity, conducted by the departments operating following the death of Frederick Akwasi Adofo, 43, from Ghana, which occurred in hospital for a serious head injury and cerebral haemorrhage, after being rescued on the street in the night between Sunday and Monday…A video camera installed in a commercial establishment has taken over the violent, sudden and unmotivated aggression by minors against the victim, which was alone on the public road. The two, after hitting the man in the face, continued to kick and punch, most of which aimed at the head, by which time the victim was motionless on the ground.

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Other videos have made it possible to reconstruct the path of the two young attackers and obtain clearer portraits of their faces. «The subsequent comparison with the multimedia content published by them on their social network profiles definitively allowed theirs individuation. From the vision of the social profiles of the two boys under investigation, the presence of content that glorified violence emerged, with images of knives and retractable sticks. During the local searches carried out at the homes of the suspects, clothing useful for the investigations were found.

The boys are in the first reception center adjacent to the Juvenile Court of Naples. It is not known whether they will answer the judge’s questions. One of the two is very active on TikTok with messages glorifying violence: photos splattered with blood, according to what Corriere della Sera reports, advice on how to carry out robberies. The other boy is less active on social media. Neither of them would have contacts with crime. They do not live in the area of ​​the beating and the investigators must understand if they happened by chance or if they planned the action.

Frederick Akwasi Adofo had already been beaten in the past. He had been in Pomigliano since 2012 and had been summoned by the social services of the Municipality, two days after his death. He would have been offered accommodation after years spent in a hotel in the center while he awaited refugee status, he had ended up on the street after losing his job. He had also been in a boarding house and group home. Lately he stood in front of the supermarket and asked for change from the cart. He had a middle school diploma, but didn’t speak Italian well and had problems with alcohol.