Wild West scenes near the Giuseppe Manno public gardens, Monday evening in Alghero. An elderly man armed with an axe attacked a man, fortunately without managing to reach him with the blows. All of this in front of some passers-by and under the electronic eyes of a video surveillance camera. There was then a fight between the two and the attacker, an eighty-year-old, fell to the ground, while the victim walked away.
It was some customers and also the managers of the nearby tobacconist's who stopped the pensioner and tried to make him desist from his unhealthy intentions.
It all happened in an instant. The old man had left his house with an ax hidden in a plastic bag and went towards a middle-aged man to hit him with the weapon, while yelling at him.
The victim reacted, pushing the eighty-year-old who fell heavily to the ground. After a few minutes, however, he returned to the attack, as soon as he identified his target, but was tackled by some passers-by. The Carabinieri of the Alghero company intervened on the scene.
