They have attempted to set fire to the shed. They would have caused an explosion, if the triggers had flared up in the painting area. There are solvents, flammables, wood waste there: they would have been involved and they would have burned down half the district”says Mauro Walkersof the same name window and door and furniture company in Sant’Elena, in the area of the former Actv depot. They were the ones who destroyed the company three minors, twelve or thirteen years old, who smashed all the offices with pickaxes and also tried to set fire to the building. «I don’t dare think – he says – if the “trigger tests” had been successful, the physical consequences that would have affected the three perpetrators. For them it was probably a game, a pastime like in social media. I’ll have to start over again. I’m doing it as if there had been an earthquake.”
Destructive fury
Last Saturday the three minors, who the man managed to lock himself inside a shed next doorallowing the police to stop them, they broke a glass and grabbing pickaxes and tools from the woodshop, they struck everything they found with exasperated violence. «A pure and gratuitous fury about everything – says the owner – And they didn’t take anything away». The fury of devastation on keyboards, computers, printers, furnitureeven on the outer piece of the conditioner, would suggest revenge or a warning. Yet, Girelli assures, no one has ever asked him anything. «I was not intimidated or threatened. I had never seen them nor have I had any disagreements with the neighbourhood.”
The kids
The company belonged to his father, there are the awards and gold medals given as gifts by the craftsmen and the administration. “Absurdly they didn’t take them, but only damaged them.” It was closed on Saturdayhowever the employee went to check the boat that Girelli moors to an external pole, and realized that the glass was broken. Then from the inspection the destroyed company appeared before their eyes. «In addition to damage (it is estimated that the this figure amounts to approximately 100 thousand eurosed.), during the first blitz, inside our offices in the afternoon of On Sunday a second vandalism raid was carried out, triggering outbreaks in six places, burning documents, a pillow, a jacket, chairs.” The fire didn’t take root. «Out of the corner of our eye we noticed the presence of the three kids who were vandalizing a shed next door. They noticed us and fled – continues Girelli – becoming trapped”. Then after the alarm the police arrived within minutes to block them. In the following days, the forensic team arrived to carry out investigations and then the company, not being under seizure, left again. “I would just like to talk to these kids and tell them about the effort and sacrifices of the people who created over time what they, in half an hour, devastated”, says the man. There are also signs of swastikas on the furnishings.
