During the peak of Covid he had chosen to embark on a new professional adventure, taking over a bar in Turin . But he would be heavily in debt and the expenses would soon become unsustainable. Desperate, he would therefore have taken the most extreme and dramatic decision: to end it, by taking his own life in the same place he had taken over.

At the center of the drama is a 64-year-old bartender, originally from Anela . We do not report the general information, out of respect for family members. But we tell the story, a sad symbol of the crisis that is affecting thousands of small entrepreneurs in the catering sector, struggling with increasingly expensive increases and expenses.

The alarm was raised by his partner , who found the 64-year-old lying behind the counter, with a knife beside him.

Then the intervention of 118, but the rescue - unfortunately - proved useless.

(Unioneonline / lf)