When the carabinieri stopped him, his hands were still dirty with petrol and he was carrying some homemade incendiary devices like the ones with which he had just set fire to some greenhouses.

Maurizio Porceddu, 56, gave up almost immediately : he is said to be responsible for the four fires which, in recent months, have brought the Agrifoglio di San Giovanni Suergiu farm to its knees and it was certainly him, who is a former employee (caught in the act of committing a crime) , causing extensive damage to a greenhouse of the same cooperative on Tuesday night.

With the blitz carried out in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday by the carabinieri of the San Giovanni Suergiu station, in collaboration with colleagues from the Carbonia Company, the nightmare lived by the members of the coop in the Sangiovannese locality "Colonia Inps" ended.

Victims of huge damages that have created alarm in the country where the coop is one of the few realities that manages to remain standing in the sea of crisis and where many families have had relatives employed in the various services that the coop offers.

Including Maurizio Porceddu, a former employee who would not have liked (as it would have emerged from the investigations) the methods of leaving the company . But in the meantime the carabinieri managed to practically stop him in the act.

Stephanie Piredda

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