Tired and still exhausted, the two vigilantes who were injured in the assault on the armored car Vigilpol returned home, which took place on Wednesday, just before 8 on state road 131, at the crossroads for Giave . Yesterday afternoon, the driver Sandro Casule, 38 years old from Cuglieri, who was hit by some splinters in his thigh, and the chief escort Piero Podda, 51 years old, from Putifigari, left the orthopedics department of the Santissima Annunziata civil hospital in Sassari. to the leg.

They had arrived at the emergency room after a commando had attacked the armored van traveling on the 131, towards Nuoro. The bandits had aimed their machine guns at the windshield causing a barrage of shots to explode. The fragments of the bullets had reached Sandro Casule in the thigh, who was transferred to the hospital aboard the ambulance, while the colleague had been hit superficially in the lower limbs and transported by ambulance. A third vigilante was miraculously unharmed.

After surgery to remove the bullets, the doctors authorized his resignation. " A bad adventure that has evolved for the better, despite the brutal aggression," said Francesco Cudoni, director of the orthopedic traumatology operating unit of the Santissima Annunziata hospital in the Aou of Sassari.