Alessandria: Drunk employee attacks customers and employers in an equestrian center, then lunges with a large knife at the Carabinieri, who immobilize him with a taser and arrest him

A normal working day at the equestrian center, with young and old, beginners and experts who train or learn to know and ride one of the most elegant animals in nature, always a life companion of man, with which he has also been able to conquer a place in History, with a capital "H", like Bucefalo, the famous horse of Alessandro Magro, or Varenne, the great Italian trotter.

Then suddenly everything changes and the smiling faces give way to tension and fear. It is almost six in the evening, when an employee of the facility, clearly drunk, begins to harass customers and employers who try to prevent them from doing so, forcing them to barricade themselves inside the covered field. The owner calls 112.

The Gazelle arrives quickly, finds the woman still barricaded while the attacker has returned to his home, belonging to the equestrian center. Carabinieri they reach him, he is arguing with a woman, he is very altered due to alcohol, an ambulance is called to help him and transport him to the Emergency Room.

But this unleashes the fury of the 54enne that, seeing the health workers, he lunges at them trying to hit them in the face. Only thanks to the intervention of a Carabiniere does he fail in his attempt, but the situation degenerates further.

The drunk steps back, he holds a large knife and points the blade of over 30 centimetres at the Carabinieri, then lunges at them to stab them. The Carabinieri dodge the blows, retreat, and have them follow them into the courtyard. The man threatens them and dangerously waves the knife at them.

One of the Carabinieri takes out the taser – a device used by law enforcement that uses electricity to immobilize the victim – and warns the man that it is about to be used on him, orders him to drop the weapon and cooperate.

All in vain, the 54-year-old lunges at the Carabiniere, who lets loose the darts. Hit in the leg, the man falls to the ground at the door of the house, but has time to lock the door and barricade himself. The Carabinieri force the door, reach him, disarm him and handcuff him.

Without delay, he was assisted by paramedics and taken to the emergency room. After treatment, the 54-year-old was arrested for resisting a public official, illegal possession of an object capable of causing offence and attempted personal injury..