An 18-year-old Ukrainian refugee was left disfigured and in need of plastic surgery after being slashed with a box cutter in a violent robbery at the hands of a large gang of approximately 40 North African men in Italy.
Danylo Shydlovskyi, who fled his homeland following the Russian invasion last year, was hospitalized as a result of the attack on the evening of Sunday, Aug. 6, in Milan.
He had been returning home from a day trip to the lake with his brother and some friends when the group was attacked outside the Garibaldi train station.“
There were six of us in all, four boys and two girls, two of which were minors,” he told Il Giorno newspaper. The victim recounted how he and his friends were accosted by “a band of about 40 North Africans. They surrounded us to steal our glasses and purse. I thought I was going to bleed to death.