Lecce, stabs fellow countryman: 30-year-old arrested

In the early morning hours of Thursday 11 July, officers on patrol duty at the police station Gallipoli State Police intervened on provisions of the operations room for a stabbing that occurred near Piazzale Fumarulo, located in the industrial area of ​​Nardò, near a guesthouse that welcomes non-EU citizens engaged in seasonal work.

Arrived on site the officers found the victim, a 32-year-old of Moroccan origins, who had already been rescued by the 118 operators who were taking him to hospital in code yellow with a reserved prognosis.

The person responsible for the stabbing, Moroccan aged 30, Which is he had moved away and fled, is He was tracked down by the police immediately afterwards, not far from the place where the crime took place.

The man, in a state of agitation, he was in possession of a machete with a 20 cm blade and not he responded to police orders who, to quell his grievances, they were forced to use the taser.

After accompanying him to the police station offices for the ritual checks e having viewed the footage from the video surveillance cameras present at the scene of the stabbing, the man was arrested for attempted murder and, upon provisions of the Judicial Authority on duty, confined in the Lecce prison.