A native of Algeria tried to rob a veteran in Milan, but he turned out to be the former coach of the country’s Olympic fencing team and knocked down the attacker, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.
Attilio Fini led the national team for almost thirty years, leading it, among other things, to gold medals in the team saber competition at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
The criminal stopped an elderly man on the street when he was returning home from a walk, and, threatening him with a weapon, demanded money and a watch.
“I hit him in the face, then I punched him in the arm, causing his gun to fly off, and then finally the push: he got stuck between some scooters,” Feeney said.
The attacker is a man wanted for murder in Algeria and accused of several robberies.
“Fencing taught me not to be afraid because if I had been afraid, now I would no longer have money or watches, and I would probably have a hole in my stomach. So I’m absolutely convinced that I did the right thing, even if it was risky. I reacted instinctively, just like when I fought on the platform, like the saber fencer that I was. Experience taught me to predict enemy movements and counterattack. Now I’m older, but my reflexes and vision apparently remain fine,” the veteran is confident.
Before the police arrived, the robber was held by a group of young people nearby. After the arrest, it turned out that the Algerian was wanted in his homeland for murder.
“This guy didn’t know that on the platform I ‘ate the liver’ of many referees,” said the former coach, recalling the myth of Prometheus.
Don Attilio, as his athletes call him, is the most successful Italian fencing coach in history: appointed from 1973 to 1994, his students won more than 450 medals in all categories, including 19 Olympic (7 gold).
Meanwhile, the media and social networks admire the courage and level of physical fitness of the coaching legend of Italian sports and literally demand that Senor Attilio be awarded not just a valuable gift, but certainly an order.
2023-12-22 15:58:00
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