Pursuit at insane speed along the Statale 197 and in the town of Sanluri.
An action movie scene that last night saw the carabinieri and a 31-year-old from Samassi armed with a semi-automatic rifle as protagonists.
The man was intercepted while speeding along the main road from Barumini, the soldiers of the Lunamatrona Station ordered him to stop but he dodged them aboard his Ford Focus and continued his mad run. pushing on the accelerator until reaching the speed of 150 km per hour .
So the chase started, while the operations center of the Sanluri Company made other patrols converge in the area: after a few kilometers the carabinieri reached him near the town of Sanluri , where the man attempted a further escape by ramming the car on duty and wounding - fortunately only slightly - the carabinieri.
Eventually the military, with the help of another NORM patrol, blocked him and handcuffed him, after the man had thrown a 12-gauge semi-automatic rifle with abraded serial number, immediately found, from the car window. A very dangerous weapon, 9 bullet cartridges and buckshot were found in the 31-year-old's car.
The 31-year-old, already known to the police and without a license, was arrested for resistance, injuries to a public officer, carrying and possession of clandestine weapons and ammunition, aggravated damage to the Carabinieri car. Now he is in the Uta prison .
The weapon, ammunition and car are seized, without insurance.
(Unioneonline / L)