Died after fifteen days in a coma just for defending his friend from a stalker. Cosimo Damiano Bologna, 50 years old from Canosa di Puglia, didn’t make it. Too serious are those wounds inflicted by the man who, for some time, haunted the woman. A violent beating, with a club. All in the center of the country: first the discussion inside a club, then outside. It had happened on the night of November 13, after one o’clock, in the town of BAT.
The two were together, near Piazza Terme, when the woman was joined by the stalker, a 58-year-old who had been harassing her for some time. Unequivocal words, according to the accusation, aimed at humiliating and bothering her. And it wouldn’t be the first time. Damiano decided to intervene, defending the woman. He knew the victim’s situation well. At that point he was attacked violently, with injuries to the skull and a swollen face. He fell to the ground bleeding, unconscious. Some witnesses raised the alarm. The police arrived immediately to track down the attacker and the 118 to provide first aid. Bologna was transported to the nearby Bonomo di Andria hospital, where he was also subjected to a delicate surgery and hospitalized in intensive care, with a reserved prognosis. In the last hours the news of his death, two weeks after the brutal attack.
What triggered the man’s violence would have been his friend’s attempt to defend the woman. The stalker managed to escape shortly after the incident in a white car, but was tracked down by the police a few days later and placed under house arrest on charges of persecutory conduct and serious injuries. To frame him, the story of some witnesses and the videos of the video surveillance cameras in the area. Now he is in prison: his position is getting worse and he will have to answer for manslaughter. An autopsy was ordered on the victim’s body, at the request of the Trani prosecutor who coordinates the investigation.
On the tragic episode, the words of the mayor of Canosa di Puglia, Roberto Morra, who speaks of “an act of brutal violence” to be “condemned”. And then of Damiano and the “example of courage of those who intervened in defense of a woman”. On the day of the funeral, it will be city mourning. “It is necessary for the city – he says again – to stop and reflect on what happened, an act far from the culture and civil life of our community”