An Italian government official is fighting for his life after being brutally beaten in a migrant gang attack near Rome’s Termini station, in what police believe was one of two connected assaults carried out within an hour late on Saturday night.
The victim of the first attack is a 57-year-old Italian man who works for the Ministry of Enterprise. According to reports from Il Giornale, he was surrounded and savagely beaten around 10 p.m. on Via Giolitti, near the Termini station.
Witnesses said the man was left bleeding out in the street. Emergency responders rushed him to Umberto I Hospital, where doctors confirmed he had suffered extremely serious injuries. He remains in critical condition.
Less than an hour later, a delivery driver was attacked on Via Manin in the Esquilino district, also close to Termini. The victim, a 23-year-old Tunisian national, was beaten but managed to escape before the attackers could seriously injure him.
Investigators believe both assaults were carried out by the same group. Surveillance footage reportedly shows seven or eight individuals approaching one of the victims before launching the attack. Police immediately launched a large overnight operation in the area, carrying out searches, document checks, and arrests.
🇮🇹F**k off! You and the police too… Suck my c**k!”
When journalists approached a youth gang in the city center of Italy's Treviso, the youths hurled bottles and vicious insults at them.
The gang has been responsible for high-profile crimes in recent months. pic.twitter.com/5xtFm4JSVd
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 17, 2025Several of those detained are foreign nationals, many already known to police. Among them is an 18-year-old Egyptian man with a criminal record for robbery, receiving stolen goods, and carrying weapons and offensive objects. He was already under an expulsion order earlier this month for being in Italy illegally.
Police also identified a Tunisian man in his 20s with prior convictions for brawling and drug offenses, a 46-year-old man from Mauritius with an outstanding detention order, and a 43-year-old Peruvian man accused of damaging a police car during police checks. In total, four migrants were arrested, while others were taken to immigration offices to verify their legal status.
🇮🇹🔴 An Italian teen boy is surrounded and ruthlessly beaten by a gang of North Africans in the city of Turin. pic.twitter.com/U6BYZnyHUJ
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 22, 2025Further checks in the area led to additional arrests for drug dealing, outstanding warrants, and violent behavior. A total of 16 people were taken in for immigration checks as police attempted to regain control of the area around the station.
“The double attack at Termini station, on a government official and a delivery driver within hours of each other, is causing great alarm and concern,” said Luisa Regimenti, Rome secretary for Forza Italia. She warned that despite a strong police presence, the area around Termini remains dangerous at night.
Regimenti called for tougher measures, including expanded surveillance, stricter exclusion orders, and stronger police controls, saying the station area is “besieged by drug dealers and vagrants.”
Lega MP Rossano Sasso added on X, “Yet another attack by immigrants. An Italian man was left near death by the usual gang of misfits who swarm that area day and night. Anyone who travels to Rome by train knows that Termini station is dangerous for anyone.
“On an almost daily basis, Italians, women and men, fall at the hands of immigrants. For the safety of Italians, an emergency and special decree should be issued: our war is at home, this is where we must send money and weapons. Not elsewhere.”
