"I'm a little upset."
Andrea Tilocca, a barman in Sassari, reflects with a cool head on the encirclement he suffered this morning in Piazza Fiume, before six, by some Spanish boys while he was going to work at Touch Plaza. "In 16 years of working at the center, nothing like this has ever happened to me."
The young men, maybe three or four of them, surrounded him, demanding money. “They were saying ‘dinero, dinero’ and they were very drunk. I had never seen them before. As soon as they got too close, I screamed.”
Tilocca was rescued by a woman who was cleaning a building in the square and who chased them away with a broom. "I'm 1.68, they were twice my height. What would have happened with just one woman?" He pointed out that they were not non-EU citizens: "No, for me they were Erasmus students." In the video filmed after the narrow escape, and published on Instagram, Andrea asked for the presence of the police in the area: "A carabinieri garrison like there used to be in Piazza d'Italia, 24 hours a day."
Several people were tagged in the post, including councilors of the majority and the mayor Giuseppe Mascia himself: « I haven't received even one phone call of solidarity, with the exception of a councilor». No complaints have been filed with the police at the moment and there are some small fears for the future. «I don't think anything else will happen. In any case, I ordered pepper spray».
