A surreal scene. This is what employees of the Conad supermarket on Via Gramsci witnessed in Sassari in 2022 when they saw a man approach the entrance window and take a television set on display for sale. The forty-seven-year-old non-EU citizen was completely at peace as he slowly walked to the exit as if he were a normal shopper and not a thief, however cold-blooded he may be.

At that point the clerks realize that the absence of the box and packaging are a clear sign that the person, of Senegalese nationality, has committed a theft. The person, rushed by the workers, remains calm and when asked if the television was his and if he had the receipt to prove it, he calmly answers "No" .

The counterparty's request to have the appliance back was inevitable, and the thief, seraphic, returned it and, with equal tranquility, awaited the police who prepared the complaint. And, in all likelihood, not even the sentence handed down to him yesterday in court in Sassari by judge Antonietta Crobu to 2 months and 20 days of imprisonment must have dented his aplomb . The lawyer Giuseppe Onorato defended the man.