The victim was Carlo Cacioli, 64, from Arezzo. One of the access points to Rena di Matteu has been closed for at least two years; emergency workers had difficulty identifying the area.
Thieves scaled the fence and stole gardening equipment. The incident refocuses attention on the ongoing raids and the flowers being stolen from graves.
The man, who arrived at the venue with a flashing blue light on his car, showed security personnel a fake badge: he was unmasked by soldiers from the Siniscola Company.
Advanced aerial footage captured the mounds of burning vegetation. The blaze was quickly contained and the perpetrator arrested. The incident occurred in the Marmilla countryside.
Today the man was questioned at length by the Carabinieri and supplemented the first complaint with chats and audio which would document threats and insults received even after the beating.
Discharged in 2013 after being diagnosed with colon cancer and after exposure to substances that he indicates as a possible cause of the disease, he has since then been fighting his bureaucratic battle, with the case reaching the Court of Cassation of the Labour Tribunal