Battipaglia, smashes door with axe and runs away

Stop the car in the middle of the road, he comes down brandishing an axe and smashes the door of a condominium in the heart of the city. Scenes of ordinary madness in Battipagliathose that occurred around 5:30 pm last Wednesday in via Pastore, to the detriment of a building overlooking the central railway station. A driver who was travelling along the busy Battipaglia road, in broad daylight, stopped his vehicle in the middle of the road and got out with an axe in his hand.

With the gun he repeatedly hit the entrance door to the apartment building at number 72 Via Pastore, one of the buildings known in the city as the railway workers’ apartments. After the incomprehensible outburst, the man got back into his car and drove away. Some of those present, terrified, contacted the agents of the local State Police Station, under the orders of the vice-questor Joseph Fedele: to the telephone report, however, no complaint was made. Only after the condominium members have filed a complaint can investigations begin, aimed at ascertaining the reasons for the act: the hypotheses of the crime would be damage and carrying in a public place an object capable of offending.

The residents are in shock. One of them, in the last few hours, vented on “You are from Battipaglia… the real thing”, community social cittadina: «When the heat arrives it is really a critical moment. You go crazy“. He stressed that the fact happened «in broad daylight and certainly under someone’s eyes“, wondering why he did this.