After a seven-hour escape, Costantino Contena, the 40-year-old criminal from Nuoro who this morning, driving an Alfa Romeo Mito, forced a checkpoint giving rise to a shooting in the center with the wounding of a policeman. The man handed himself over to the head of the Nuoro Mobile Squad Fabio Di Lella at the Police Headquarters.
It was recognized by the Police because already prejudiced for drugs, the man of about 40 years who this morning forced a checkpoint at the entrance of Nuoro giving rise to a chase in the city streets which was followed by a firefight in which an agent was slightly injured. Stuck in Piazza Indipendenza, the driver fled and is now a manhunt.
When the driver fled on foot in a part of the city where the search can be facilitated by the cameras in the area: the place of the shooting is, in fact, a few steps from the Municipality, the Police Headquarters and the Prefecture. When the Mito slowed down, officers fired at the tires, forcing the man to flee on foot.
From the Police Headquarters of Nuoro they speak of "investigations" on the wounding of the agent, while the city is surrounded by checkpoints with the searches are coordinated by the Mobile Squad of Nuoro. In the meantime, the prosecutor of Nuoro, with the prosecutor on duty Ilaria Bradamante, has opened a file on the matter.
His was the car, a Mito, which did not stop at the alt and his is the mobile phone found inside the abandoned car between the Asproni classical high school and the Municipality. The boys of the classical and those of the high school of human and musical sciences had to give up outdoor recreation on the disposition of the police headquarters, then lessons resumed regularly. The work of the investigators continues with the vision of the surveillance cameras to understand in which direction the man fled and with the ballistic investigations of the scientific to understand which weapons they fired.
THE WOUNDED AGENT WILL HEAL IN A FEW DAYS - The assistant head of the Nuoro Mobile Squad, Nicola Catte, 51 years old from Oliena, is fine, wounded this morning by a leg smear in the shooting following the pursuit of an Alfa Romeo Mito that did not stop at the alt, events that occurred around 10.15 between via Brigata Sassari and via Trieste. Transported to the San Francesco hospital, the agent was judged curable in a few days.
