San Marino, February 28, 2023 – He shot a cat with an air rifle, hit it on the head and killed it. The shooter is not just anyone, but the rising star of cycling, Antonio Tiberi. But the cat wasn’t just any cat either, but the feline ‘adopted’ by the current Minister of Tourism and Post Office Federico Pedini Amati, former Captain Regent of the small Republic of San Marino, who is now announcing: “I will ask that Tiberi be stripped of his residence”. Meanwhile, the cyclist said he regretted it and his team suspended him: no races for at least twenty days. What happened The cyclist Antonio Tiberi – 21 years old, bronze at the 2018 European Championships and gold in the junior time trial at the 2019 World Championships – has been living on Mount Titano since March 2022. Months ago he shot from the window of the apartment where he lives in San Marino, with a rifle (depowered) duly purchased a week before the event, but which has now been confiscated. The sentence Pedini Amati himself reported the incident to the Gendarmes on 21 June: Tiberi was sentenced to pay 4,000 euros, after being traced by cross-referencing data on residents, gun holders and the line of fire. Before the judge, in an interrogation at…
