The 25-year- old responsible for the attack in via Seruci was captured by the police: the young man was traced to a house in the same street in the Is Mirrionis neighborhood by the investigators of the Flying Squad.

Erik Masala, already known to the police , threatened to blow everything up with a gas cylinder and freed two large dogs . He then opened to agents, after hearing from his lawyer Riccardo Floris. Eventually the cops managed to stop him .

In the house, it seems illegally occupied, there was also a girl . The 25-year-old was taken to the police headquarters and detained - motivated by the danger of escape - for attempted murder and resistance to a public official. Then the transfer to the Uta prison.

The young man also made the agents find the machete (and not a billhook as initially assumed) used for the attack. The weapon was delivered to the police station by his girlfriend and was subjected to seizure, now it will be examined by the Scientific Police for footprints and traces of blood.

THE RECONSTRUCTION - The escape therefore lasted a day and a half. On Saturday night the 25-year-old, as reconstructed by the investigators, allegedly attacked Maurizio Castangia , 26, with a billhook (or a machete), hitting him in the arm. The injured, urgently hospitalized at Brotzu, underwent a delicate operation and the doctors managed to save his limb . Castangia is hospitalized with a prognosis of thirty days in the Orthopedics ward.

THE INVESTIGATIONS - The soldiers of the Cagliari company set to work to reconstruct what happened on Saturday night and what the motive is. Some witnesses who witnessed the phases of the attack were heard and the injured young man was also heard , before he entered the operating room for the delicate surgery. The information gathered allowed the military to get a precise idea of the alleged perpetrator who fled immediately afterwards, apparently aboard a car. This morning it was the Mobile investigators who tracked down Masala and carried out the raid and his arrest.

THE RECONSTRUCTION - The two young people had a discussion in the street apparently over an unpaid debt . Masala would have gone away for a few minutes and then returned armed with a machete with which he hit Castangia in the left arm, then fled making him lose track.

Among the people questioned by the carabinieri immediately after the incident was a young woman who on Saturday night was in via Seruci con Castangia, from Oristano for some time residing in Cagliari. The girl reported that Castangia and the attacker knew each other from having had some disagreements in the past. The young man after an argument went away to return with something in his hand. “We thought it was a tube. It all happened in a few moments: he approached and struck a blow with a billhook, perhaps a machete. I kept Maury's arm pressed to the rest of his body until rescuers arrived. He lost a lot of blood ”, explained the girl still in shock.

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