Lavello: Attacks his ex and then lunges at 2 passers-by who came to the woman's aid, 45-year-old arrested

just another timely intervention by the Carabinieri who prevented worse consequences for a woman from Vulture-Melfese attacked by her ex. Following a report arrived at the single number for emergencies 112, the Carabinieri of the Lavello Station and the Radiomobile Unit of the Venosa Company They intervened to calm the bellicose intentions of a person in the town centre. There, a couple of passers-by, noticing the increasingly aggressive attitude of a man towards a woman, decided not to continue straight on their path but to stop and assist her, while contacting 112.

On site the military of the Arma intervened promptly is They helped the woman, who was clearly agitated, and stopped the man who, after damaging the victim's car, was hitting the car of the two passers-by. According to what was reconstructed by the men of the Benemerita, the attacker, a 45-year-old local man, after hitting his ex and damaging her car, was reserving the same treatment to the two passers-by who had intervened to defend the woman when the Carabinieri arrived.

Once the ritual formalities have been completed, the man was declared under arrest on charges of personal injury, threats and damage, and locked up in the security cells of the Arma at the disposal of the Potenza Judicial Authority. The judge for the Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Potenza he then validated the arrest by ordering the precautionary measure of house arrest against the accused, for whom the presumption of innocence applies until a final conviction.

The collaboration between citizens and law enforcement, which proved crucial in this episode, demonstrates the importance of promptly reporting any dangerous situation or criminal event to the single emergency number 112. An important and extremely effective tool in its simplicity, underlined by the Provincial Carabinieri Command of Potenza, capable of fully realizing the concept of proximity that has always been promoted by the force.