Family, friends and
neighbors of Davide Bifolco, the 17-year-old shot dead by police
after running a roadblock Thursday night, were shocked and
outraged over his death.
"I'm ashamed to be an Italian. Now the State, who is going
to apologize to us for what happened?" said Bifolco's brother
Tommaso.
"Around here we see a lot of deaths but last night an entire
neighborhood came out into the streets and you know why? Because
it wasn't a mobster that got killed but an innocent boy," said
Tommaso Bifolco.
A woman who gave her name as Annalisa was among those who
came out to protest the shooting, and said there were around a
hundred others with her.
"What happened is shameful. The police should defend us and
instead they killed an innocent boy. Here in the Traiano
neighborhood, we don't want the police anymore," Annalisa said.
Davide Bifolco's mother, Flora, said that she saw her son
just minutes before he was fatally shot, when he returned home
to ask for some headgear because he was cold.
"Now, if he's brave enough, that police officer has to kill
me too, because he killed my son Davide," said Bifolco's mother.
Naples mayor Luigi de Magistris expressed his condolences to
the family and said he hoped that "already within the next few
hours, we might have a clearer picture of the sequence of
events".
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