Repeat offender allegedly attacked a tourist in Vancouver – BC

Another stranger attack has occurred in downtown Vancouver, this time targeting a female tourist.

Vancouver police say the attack happened around 9 a.m. Sunday near the Waterfront Station SkyTrain terminal on Howe Street.

Police said the defenseless woman was hit in the head, knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly, with her injuries requiring hospitalization.

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Security cameras captured the incident and police arrested 30-year-old Massimo Falvo at a rooming house on Pender Street just a few hours later. He is now charged with aggravated assault and remains behind bars.

Falvo is known to the police.

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“He was on probation at the time of this offense for similar offenses that occurred in the past,” said Vancouver Police Sgt. said Steve Addison.

In 2024, Falvo was convicted of assaulting four different people.

All incidents involved people being hit in the head. The BC Public Prosecution Service confirmed he was placed on probation for three years and one day in jail, taking into account the 22 days prior detention.

Even Falvo was surprised and placed “3 years probation on four separate assault charges. I’m lucky I didn’t go to jail” on social media.

“There is an expectation in the community that if a person is arrested once, twice, three times, and now four times for serious misdemeanors, violent, unprovoked attacks on strangers, there will be meaningful consequences,” Addison told Global News.

Massimo Falvo is due back in court on Wednesday morning.

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