Ascoli, July 14, 2026 – No step back, on the contrary. Giuseppe Barboni, the 38-year-old registered with Futuro Nazionale who beat the homeless Iraqi in San Benedetto, strikes back. On the microphones of the show that has given him the most voice recently, La Zanzara on Radio24, also hosting him with a tricolor mayoral sash without having the title, he said: “Me, regretful? Are you kidding? Actually, I was a bit regretful because I could very well have taken him and put him to sleep, using some techniques. Instead, I gave him two slaps, two caresses. I could have broken his arm, I could have broken his leg. He was so helpless by then, unconscious. And instead, I did nothing.”
“I removed a problem from society”
“I tried to move him away politely first, when he suddenly turned around I thought he had a knife and I intervened – continues Barboni on La Zanzara – I removed a problem from society. The police? They had been called, that guy had been there since 7 pm, I intervened at 9:30 pm. My companies? I have nothing in Italy, I have everything abroad.”
“I thought he was about to take a knife, so I stopped him”
“I tried politely to move him away – Barboni explains again talking about the episode involving the Iraqi -, when he turned around I thought he was about to take a knife, so I stopped him.” “But in the video you can see that after putting him on the ground you also punched him and then slammed him against a pole,” replies the radio host Giuseppe Cruciani. Barboni: “They were not punches, if they had been he would have died. When you face a situation like that, if he goes crazy you have to stop him, but punches are another thing. The pole? I didn’t do it on purpose, I just moved him off the street.”
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The assaulted has filed a complaint
The Iraqi got a medical report at the San Benedetto emergency room where they gave him 14 days prognosis and this morning he filed a formal complaint at the police station. On social media the case has crossed national borders, dividing between those who exalt him as a ‘vigilante’ and those who condemn without appeal.
Waiting for Vannacci’s reaction
There is great anticipation to understand the reaction of General Roberto Vannacci, who has so far remained silent on the incident. The leader of Futuro Nazionale will be in Marche tomorrow, July 15, at 11:30 at Shada in Civitanova. However, it was Fabrizio Ciarapica, coordinator of Futuro Nazionale in Marche, who spoke in an interview with Il Resto del Carlino: “The person involved is a simple member of the movement, he joined independently through the website, as have over 130,000 Italians. He holds no office or representative functions in Futuro Nazionale. Many citizens feel a growing sense of insecurity and ask for concrete answers on security and legality. It is a discomfort that politics has the duty to address seriously and with a greater presence of the State. Precisely for this reason, the answer can never be violence or vigilante justice.”
