He had a switchblade, not even a small one, but no one had noticed. The night between Sunday and yesterday in the emergency room of the Santissima Trinità in Cagliari could have ended in tragedy: only the intervention of the security guards prevented a psychiatric patient, aged around 50, from inflicting more serious injuries than those he managed to inflict. inflicted on himself or, perhaps, affected other patients.

It was just after 4 when the request for help came from inside the emergency-urgency structure of the Is Mirrionis hospital: the man, who had already been taken care of by the department, suddenly pulled out the blade and started causing deep wounds.

A Vigilpol guard tried to stop him but the knife, the splashes of blood and his strength made the intervention very difficult. The colleague who was outside came to the rescue and only after a long period of tension did the vigilantes manage to disarm the patient - after having cleared the area of all the other people in need of care - and then handed him over to the police forces. order, which in the meantime had been called.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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