Police in Bassano del Grappa arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of family mistreatment after a child called emergency services. The operation began at around 13:40 after a nine-year-old girl contacted 112. She told officers she had just escaped from home with her mother to get away from a violent attack by her father. Officers from the Volanti unit of the Bassano del Grappa Police Headquarters found the mother and daughter in the street near the local elementary school. The mother was in shock and crying, with visible injuries to her head and right arm. Paramedics took her to hospital for treatment. Investigators reconstructed the alleged assault from the girl’s statements. They said the violence happened during lunch over what the report called a trivial reason. The man allegedly pushed his wife to the ground, causing her head to hit the kitchen table, then stomped on her right arm. He also allegedly tried to throw a chair at her, but the child stepped in and was then allegedly pulled and pushed away by the father without sustaining injuries. While victims were receiving medical care, police went to the family home and located the man inside, apparently under the influence of alcohol. He made spontaneous statements admitting responsibility. Police later identified a serious and long-lasting pattern of physical and psychological violence, allegedly ongoing for years. The suspect was arrested and taken to the prison facility in Vicenza while the public prosecutor was informed for the convalidation hearing.