Meager loot this time: "I haven't left anything in the cash register after closing time for a while now. In light of what's been happening in the last few days, then..." Stefano Maxia is the owner of the Quartello pharmacy, on via Monaco in Quartu. During the night two criminals forced the shutter and opened the door to take away the takings. Only the latest in a long series of thefts and break-ins that are keeping pharmacists in Cagliari and the surrounding area on edge: at least six robberies have been carried out in the last few weeks.
In Cagliari, Quartu, Capoterra. The modus operandi is almost always the same: in some cases, the criminals have uprooted the cash register, loaded it onto a truck and disappeared with the money. A few hundred euros, almost a thousand when things went well. "We have suffered five thefts in the last few weeks. We ask for more security: we are a public and essential service but it is essential that our safety and that of our collaborators be guaranteed". This is the appeal of the Federfarma councilors, Marco Porcu and Claudia Rizzo, and of the pharmacist Federica De Villa. They have already requested that the issue be addressed in the Prefecture.
Their words were spoken before the theft committed in Quartello: "We talk among ourselves," explains Maxia, "I know that many colleagues have suffered a theft. For this reason, just yesterday I called a company that deals with window frames. The intention was to install an onion in the shutter", a system that makes the lock more secure, "but I didn't have time: they entered during the night".
The business is protected by an anti-theft system and cameras: «We have the images, there were two of them, even with their faces uncovered: they entered and exited in 28 seconds», explains Maxia.
