They have a chat where they exchange opinions and tell their misadventures and worries. They are resident merchants in the Cagliari neighborhood of Stampace. In the area of Piazza del Carmine the tension is palpable.
The group is called Let's try to save via Sasseri and Piazza del Carmine. About thirty members who take stock every day. Last night, a few steps from an ethnic shop, a young foreigner was injured with the sharp neck of a bottle. A fight between two groups of Gambian and North African nationality. The boy was immediately rescued and taken to the hospital. A few minutes earlier he had taken refuge in a restaurant among set tables and terrified customers. The attacker was arrested shortly after and charged with attempted murder.
"It was a fight, one of these guys came in and the other wanted to come in to continue beating him," says Alberto Armeni, owner of the place, "we sent him away and then they continued."
"We are all women and sometimes it is difficult for us to go get the car, we go with each other" , adds Laura Sechi, owner of a restaurant. Iole Zedda, owner of the Zodiaco, is disconsolate: "We are used to it now, every night there is a fight, every night there is a chase: every night we have to fight with this situation".
Bad postcard for a group of girls from Messina on the island to celebrate a hen party: "We had our car parked right here in front and it happened that two guys got into a fight. Unfortunately the car, which was also rented, was involved in this fight."