Acireale, carabiniere wounded: risks paralysis

The 43-year-old deputy sergeant of the carabinieri, who was seriously injured last night to quell a fight in Acireale (Catania), risks paralysis. The non-commissioned officer of the Arma was operated in the night at the Cannizzaro hospital in Catania by the team of Dr. Salvatore Cicero of the Neurosurgery Complex Operating Unit. His conditions are serious. Read also Late yesterday evening the man who drew his gun and wounded the deputy brigadier off duty was arrested for attempted murder. This is a 69-year-old man. Yesterday the military intervened near the church of Santa Maria Ammalati in Acireale at the end of the communion ceremony for a brawl between a dozen people. The deputy brigadier on duty at the Aci Sant’Antonio carabinieri station was free from duty and present for the communion ceremony of his son, he intervened to help his fellow carabinieri but suddenly, during the dispute, the attacker extracted the gun wounding the deputy sergeant. He was immediately disarmed by the military from the mobile radio.