A 14-year-old student was found carrying an 18-centimetre kitchen knife in his backpack at a scientific high school in Terzigno, in the Metropolitan City of Naples. The knife was seized, and the boy was reported for illegally carrying a weapon.
The discovery prompted the school principal to contact the local Carabinieri station. Officers went to the school, seized the knife, and summoned the student's mother to the premises.
No further details about the student's identity, the name of the school, or exactly how the knife was discovered have been reported.
Argument with classmate under examination
Investigators are examining a reportedly heated argument between the student and a classmate on the previous day as a possible line of inquiry.
That argument has not been confirmed as the motive for bringing the knife to school. The reason the student was carrying the weapon has not been established, and no final judicial outcome has been reported.
A wider pattern in Naples schools
The Terzigno case is not isolated. In a separate incident reported in February 2026 in Naples, a 17-year-old student was reported after a teacher alerted police to a 32-centimetre kitchen knife found in the student's backpack.
Following such incidents, the Naples prefecture said targeted school checks, including the use of metal detectors, would continue.
Weapons seizures across the province
Metropolis Web attributes broader provincial figures to the Naples Carabinieri command. From January through August, Carabinieri reportedly seized 150 improvised weapons and 78 firearms across the province.
In the same period, there were 44 arrests and 138 reports for weapons-related offences, according to the figures cited in the report. No separate official release was available to independently verify those numbers.
The Terzigno investigation remains open, with Carabinieri continuing their inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the knife.
