Alarm and fear in Torre del Lago, near Viareggio (Lucca), where a 44-year-old man barricaded himself in an apartment with his elderly father, armed with a gun.
The man, to whom the municipal police had gone to notify mandatory medical treatment, not only did not open the door of the house to the doctor who was supposed to assess his condition, but he fired two shots with a caliber pistol. 22.
A bullet, passing through the fortunately closed front door, ricocheted off the chest of a firefighter. The man got away with ten days of prognosis: "By pure miracle the foreman is fine", reports the Undersecretary of the Interior Carlo Sibilia who then spoke to us on the phone finding him "still a little emotionally shaken" but " very present to himself. Thank God he felt only a strong burning ".
There was an emergency on the spot for hours: the road, blocked and with a nearby school evacuated as a precaution, was full of 118 men and women, firefighters and police. In addition to shouting threats, the 44-year-old said he had provisions for a week.
In the end, the Nocs had to intervene: a loud explosion was heard and shortly after the son and father were taken out of the building, unharmed.
According to what is learned, the man, once a hospital employee in Pisa, then fired, would have been afflicted with ailments after the death of his mother, which occurred a few years ago. The neighbors knew his "oddities" but no one knew about that gun which, police explain, he held illegally.
(Unioneonline / lf-D)