Roberto Spada, the brother of a jailed Italian mobster, brutally assaulted a TV journalist Wednesday.
The attack took place in Ostia, a seaside town in Italy near Rome.
The journalist’s cameraman filmed the entire attack, which included a truly vicious headbutt.
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Violenza clan Spada inaccettabile. Solidarietà a giornalista e film maker di @NemoRai2 aggrediti a Ostia. Fermeremo criminalità e estremismi a Roma. pic.twitter.com/yXFYOk37TO
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The journalist, Daniele Piervincenzi, was investigating Spada’s alleged connection to CasaPound, BBC reports.
CasaPound is an Italian far-right movement named after American poet Ezra Pound. The group recently garnered 9% of the vote in Ostia’s local elections.
Supporters of Italian far-right movement CasaPound march behind a banner reading “Enough deterioration, Close the Mosque” during a protest against a mosque situated in Via San Vito on October 4, 2017 in the Esquilino district of Rome. (ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)
Spada reportedly broke Piervincenzi’s nose with the headbutt, and then continued to beat the journalist with a baton.
Spada was later arrested by police and stands accused of “grievous bodily harm ‘with mafia methods,'” according to BBC.
CasaPound’s vice-president Simone Di Stefano denounced the attack as “deplorable” and claimed that Spada was not a member of the movement.