The handcuffs are released for FA, the 49-year-old unemployed person from Porto Torres who, on the afternoon of Monday 27 September, armed with a dog gun, sowed panic among the people passing through Piazza Marconi, aiming the gun at eye level and firing three blank shots.
The man was arrested by the carabinieri of the Porto Torres company on the orders of the surveillance magistrate who issued a precautionary custody order for the alleged facts: serious threat, dangerous explosions in a public place and theft. Following the investigative activity and the elements collected by the military, under the command of Major Danilo Vinciguerra, the judge decided to issue the precautionary measure, as the dog scacciacani had created social alarm.
The man was transferred to the Bancali prison. Already known to the police for criminal offenses related to drugs, after having stolen a minicar from an elderly disabled man, he had taken the road that leads to the basilica of San Gavino in the wrong direction. Under the influence of alcohol, and probably drugs, he had knocked down one of the pillars that limit Piazza Marconi, in the Monte Agellu district, then with a reverse maneuver he damaged a parked car, the Citroen Picasso of owned by a retired policeman. After the accident, the dismissed officer, worried, approached the injured 49-year-old to invite him to get out of the car, but when he refused, the policeman extracted the keys and alarmed the police. The unemployed man went into a rage threatening those present to return with a gun to shoot. Reaching his home, a few minutes from the square, he took up the weapon and once he rushed into the street he began firing blanks, sowing terror among the people. Barricaded at home, he was stopped by the carabinieri and transported to the civil hospital of Sassari to receive the necessary treatment.
He had been reported not only for the two confirmed crimes, but also for receiving stolen goods, an accusation that was turned into theft after investigations found that the man had stolen the minicar.
