Two volunteer rescuers were beaten. So violent that their 118 colleagues were forced to accompany them to the hospital in Cagliari. It happened in Senorbì, on the main street of the capital of Trexenta and the Carabinieri of the Dolianova Company are investigating the matter. The investigators are keeping a tight lid on the story that everyone in town is talking about, but the investigations are close to a breakthrough.
Sanna Street
It all happened three days ago. It was 7 pm when two volunteers on board an ambulance from Emergency Sardegna, after having helped an elderly man, stopped for a coffee in a downtown café, the Tb. While they were at the counter, a passerby noticed that a young worker was trying to open the ambulance by acting on the door handle. The volunteers' team leader, Stefano Ghisu, 28, immediately left the café and tried to push the intruder away.
The clash
It seemed that the situation had been resolved, but as Ghisu was about to return to the bar to finish his coffee, the worker picked up a tile from the ground and violently hit the volunteer from behind with it. Tempers flared. A fellow volunteer, Filippo Schirru, his peer, intervened to help Ghisu, but in the meantime some of the worker's colleagues also emerged from the bar.
From here a scene worthy of a western movie, a real aggression with tables and chairs thrown towards the two volunteers literally surrounded by six or seven young people who then ran away.
The investigations
Another ambulance from 118 arrived on the scene: Ghisu and Schirru were given a prognosis of about a week for the beatings they had received. The Carabinieri were informed of the incident and collected testimonies from those present.
The workers who attacked the 118 volunteers are not from Senorbì, they have been in town for a few days following a company that is doing work on the streets. There are three construction sites underway: one for the laying of the gas network, another for the optical fiber and then another company is taking care of the restoration of the road surface, it remains to be understood for whom the attackers are working.
The Carabinieri are examining the video surveillance images made available to the municipal administration to give a name and surname to those faces filmed while attacking the volunteers. From what was collected by the military of the Arma, the aggression of the workers was triggered by a few too many drinks drunk after the working day: a few minutes earlier other passers-by had already been harassed.
Paul Card
