“I slipped on the flames trying to put out the fire.” According to what has been ascertained, this is the first version that Alexander Leone provided to the health workers upon his arrival at the emergency room of theCannizzaro hospital in Catania. Since Tuesday morning the owner of the bar Chocolate & Coffee finds himself hospitalized following the explosion of his business, on Catania seafront. The bar, opened in 2011, had been closed for some time for renovation, with the works which – on behalf of the condominium – were also affecting the four-storey building on the number 131 viale Ruggero di Lauria. On the facts, the Etna prosecutor’s office has currently opened a case against unknown persons with the hypothesis of arson. The investigators of the Flying Squad, according to what appears to MeridioNews, they would be able to put the pieces of this story together. There are no doubtsalso based on the report of the fire investigation unit of the Palermo fire brigade, which the matrix is malicious. Two explosions And a fire match with the priming of a gas cylinder which was inside the bar.
Together with Leonewho before arriving in the ambulance at Cannizzaro reached Garibaldi-Nesima by car, remained a second man was injured. It’s about a 40 year old arrived mid-morning, with his own vehicle, at the emergency room of theSan Marco hospital. Her conditions, immediately appeared seriousled doctors to carry out an interventionbut the man would not be in danger of dying. The person in question it would be a face already known to the policeas well as being known by Leo himself. The two Were they together when the tank exploded? Or did they arrive later? The investigators are waiting to hear from the entrepreneur, also because the 41-year-old is improving: he has been extubated, discharged from intensive care and transferred to large burns center in Cannizzaro. Already heard, however, the tenants of the building. They were given the green light to return in the building, except for one womanwho lives in the apartment right above the exploded shop.
Meanwhile they emerge further details about what happened to end of November last year. Period in which, following an operation for a malicious fire (which did not affect the external scaffolding for the renovation of the facade, ed) the policemen of the Flying Department they found not one, but two bottles with flammable liquid as well as a can of petrol.
