His Facebook page has received numerous messages from friends, who wrote, “he was incapable of harming a fly.”
The incident happened in a disco at 3 am; the Russians, ages 20, 22 and 26, who were found walking along a seaside promenade, were arrested. Catalonia, where the attack took place, is the region of Spain that attracts the most visitors and ranks #3 worldwide for the number of tourists who chose it as their destination — 75,000,000 — in 2016 alone.
To read more in Italian, visit Florence’s La Repubblica news site.