This early morning should have been a normal traffic police check on a motorcyclist who was proceeding in the wrong direction in the historic center of the city.
The attack on the officers
Instead, following the centaur’s oppositional, verbal, physical and energetic reaction, the story had a different nature. And in fact, after the insults, the rants and the refusal of personal details to the officers, the subject, a 46-year-old from Reggio, soon took action. First by pushing and attacking the officers, then by running over a member of the patrol, and finally by hitting the municipal policemen with his helmet. Only the cold blood and skill of the agents themselves avoided the worst.
The arrest and transfer to the barracks
Not without difficulty, in fact, the motorcyclist was made safe, and also thanks to the reinforcements promptly alerted by the Operations Room, stopped and taken to the Macheda-Marino barracks.
Arrest and house arrest
There, after the ritual formalities, he was declared under arrest for the crimes of resistance, violence and injury to a public official, aggravated by the qualification of the injured, and upon order of the magistrate on duty promptly notified, restricted to the AG’s disposal under house arrest at his home.
The toll of the wounded and the seizure of weapons
Three of the officers involved in the activity suffered injuries reported by the Grand Metropolitan Hospital and believed to be healable in 10 and 14 days.
Following the reclamation of the house where the house arrest was held, two weapons (a pistol and a short-barreled rifle) regularly held by the arrested person were confiscated as a precaution.