Rome, woman pricks a needle on her back: the rush to the hospital. The point of the needle is feared
«It was noon, I was in via Brunetti, I reached down to remove the chain from my bicycle and my jacket fell over my back. Suddenly I felt a sting. I don’t know what it was exactly, maybe a small syringe but I’m sure it was a needle. I looked up and saw a man walking away.’ The victim herself, a 40-year-old woman, mother of two girls, denounced the attack that took place in the center, a few meters from Via del Corso.
Rome, the gesture recalls the tapping of the needle
It could be an isolated case but the gesture certainly recalls the needle pinThe recorded phenomenon already in several European countries, which consists of pricking strangers, especially women, with infected or drug-containing syringes, generally in nightlife contexts and often in discos and clubs.
Rome, the dramatic tale
«What happened to me is shocking – she tells Adnkronos – I got scared and I was like petrified, I was afraid that he could hurt me, but I followed him with my eyes. He continued to carry out vandalism along the way. As soon as I recovered, I got on my bike and followed him, I managed to catch him, he saw me and disappeared into the crowd”. In the video, a man with shaved hair and a thick brush crest appears, wearing a black sleeveless over a beige sweatshirt and light-colored trousers.
“I will have to undergo tests for HIV and hepatitis”
«Immediately afterwards I went to Spallanzani – she explains – I’m lucky because no blood came out, even if the part where I was stung has swollen. Now I still have to get tested for HIV and hepatitis. It was truly a trauma, yesterday I was crying and I was desperate but I will file a complaint because the same thing could happen to anyone, even some children”.