Overview
- A father attacked his 12-year-old son inside a flat on Via Vergini in Naples, stabbing the boy twice while his two sisters watched and the mother intervened and was hurt.
- An ambulance nurse, identified as Martina, said she carried the bleeding boy toward the ambulance while the father struck him again and then grabbed cannula needles from medics to attack, and the nurse has filed a formal complaint.
- Carabinieri seized the knife and the cannula needles used in the assaults and opened a criminal investigation into the case.
- Both the child and the father were taken to Pellegrini hospital with serious, uncertain prognoses and witnesses say neighbors and bystanders helped EMS staff restrain the attacker.
- Authorities are probing motive amid reports of a possible drug-withdrawal episode by the father that remain unconfirmed, and the case raises immediate child-protection and trauma concerns for the surviving siblings.