Sassari, 80-year-old's van set on fire: "They cut off my legs"

"I already have trouble walking, now they've cut off my legs completely."

The speaker is an 80-year-old whose Mercedes van was set on fire yesterday morning at 4am in via Artiglieria in Sassari. The man's clothes and belongings were destroyed along with the now unusable vehicle.

"I had it for 20 years and I traveled the world with it without anything happening to me. I had to come to Sassari for it to happen."

The man, a Sardinian in the city for some personal reasons, is very desperate: «I can't wait to leave, if the city welcomes you in this way».

Yesterday the Carabinieri and the fire brigade intervened and now they hope for some cameras in the area to discover the person responsible or responsible. "I have lived here for a year and I see too much violence - concludes the man - with regret I will have to leave this Sardinia where once such things would never have happened. I have never hurt anyone and this is how I am repaid".