"I'm afraid that one day I could be the victim of a femicide." This is a woman, a resident of Via La Marmora in Sassari , who says she was unwittingly swept away by a whirlwind of drugs and madness triggered by her neighbor .

"Where to start? Perhaps with the knives, scissors, and sticks he left near the entrance. They were the weapons he wanted to use to confront other immigrants like him, and not only ." We are in the historic center, an urban jungle where the "flowers of evil" of cocaine and heroin abound.

"The white one and the black one, the two offers I hear him mention most often when he's looking out the window ." Because the dealing in recent months has been home-based, due to the house arrest ordered by a judge. "But now I'm under arrest too, without having done anything."

The man, the woman reports, spends his days within the walls of a house without water, buying and selling drugs and engaging in a relentless, hours-long monologue in which he yells, threatens, and curses an imaginary interlocutor. "Then he does the same outside, relentlessly provoking passersby. Throwing objects, like the roller shutter once upon a time. And spitting." It's a compulsion to repeat his behavior, spattering saliva on people, the street, the walls, and the stairs of the building. This is combined with his outbursts of punching cars, beatings, and continuing those sales despite the precautionary measure .

"He broke the lock on the entrance, so now there's a constant flow of customers. And anyone can reach my apartment door." Sometimes the buyers aren't able to get very far with the goods, instead opening the car door to get inside, and then leaving in an obviously altered state. "There are many traces of consumption, like the aluminum plates on which they test the goods."

But this aspect is secondary to the behavior of the foreigner, which has exasperated those who live in the area. "We have given the police a complaint with 60 signatures asking someone to do something. Also because everyone knows." The actions of the man, who clearly has mental problems, are well known, as is his frequent attack on anyone .

Some residents have bought pepper spray to protect themselves, but for the woman, this is a poor deterrent. "I'm no longer alive and I can't sleep at night. I keep my relatives and friends in the dark about the danger I'm in and my anguish because I don't want them to worry. And I don't let anyone come here anymore." Those who intervened during the various incidents advised her to leave the house. "But I don't want to do that. It's absurd. He should be the one to leave, not me." The problem, however, she concludes, is that "I have no protection and he can do whatever he wants. When will they decide to intervene?"

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