Italian police on Wednesday arrested
a minor in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old boy in a youth
street fight in Formia between Rome and Naples.
The boy who has been arrested is from the province of Caserta
north of Naples, police said.
Police said they were trying to identify the 10 or so boys who
took part in the scuffle on Tuesday night in the coastal city
south of Latina.
The fight broke out between local boys and a group from Caserta,
police said.
Another boy was stabbed in the fight and is in hospital where
his condition is not life threatening.
Youth street fights have become more frequent in Italy in recent
months.
A 16-year-old boy suffered a knife wound to the hand in a
scuffle among youths on Naples' waterfront on Tuesday. The
set-to sent clients in local bars and restaurants running for
cover, as well as passersby.
In a fight near Rome last year, a 21-year-old Italo-Cape Verdian
cook, Willy Monteiro Duarte, who had stepped in to defend a
friend, was beaten to death.
Duarte's alleged killers, a pair of brothers who are expert
mixed martial arts fighters, have been charged with his murder
in Colleferro.
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