The 49-year-old unemployed man who yesterday afternoon, shortly after 6 pm, under the influence of alcohol, detonated three shots of a dog-slinger gun was denounced for receiving stolen goods, serious threats and dangerous explosions in a public place, sowing panic among the people. The episode took place in the Monte Agellu district, in Piazza Marconi, near the basilica of San Gavino.
The man, with a criminal record, after stealing a minicar, while heading in the wrong direction on the road towards the church, tore up one of the pylons that delimit the square, then with a series of reversing maneuvers he crashed into a Citroen Picasso parked on the opposite side. The owner, a policeman on leave, after witnessing the scene intervened inviting him to get out of the car. "But when I extracted the keys from the minicar to prevent the man from continuing to damage my car - says the retired policeman - he went into a rage threatening to return with a gun to shoot me". So, once he reached his home not far from the square, he took up a dog-slaying weapon and rushed into the street pointing the gun at the policeman and the people present. Moments of terror among the people who fled to seek shelter.
Alarmed by the police on the spot, the carabinieri of the Porto Torres company arrived and stopped FA, which in the meantime had barricaded itself in the house. The military searched his home where they found and confiscated the weapon. The 49-year-old was later accompanied to the hospital to receive the necessary treatment.
