Overview

• State Police in Pompei executed a pretrial detention order issued by a Torre Annunziata investigating judge at the request of local prosecutors.
• Investigators say the August 2024 episode involved seizing the victim from the street, holding him for about two hours, forcing him into a pool despite his inability to swim, then abandoning him in a rural field.
• The suspects face counts of kidnapping and bodily injury, with aggravating factors prosecutors describe as abject and trivial motives, actions for amusement, and exploitation of reduced defensive capacity.
• The victim was heard by prosecutor Andreana Ambrosino in the presence of a psychologist and reported insults as well as injuries to multiple parts of his body.
• One suspect received the order inside Naples’ Poggioreale prison due to an unrelated case, and the matter remains in the investigative pretrial phase without a court finding on the merits.