Shooting in a disco in Taranto, 37 year old arrested. The fight would have broken out over a girl

• Disco party in Tarantino ends in shooting, 10 injured

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22 July 2021 Umberto Sardiello, the 37-year-old convict from Taranto, arrested yesterday by the Flying Squad for the shooting in the Yachting Club, in San Vito-Taranto, which caused ten injuries, will be questioned tomorrow. Today the Prosecutor's Office (Deputy Prosecutor Maurizio Carbone is coordinating the investigation together with Deputy Prosecutor Enrico Bruschi) sent the documents for the validation of the arrest. From the development of the investigations, it would have emerged that a girl present at Yachting would have triggered the clash between the 37-year-old and two people from Grottaglie, one of whom was seriously injured and a rival of Sardiello himself. A university party was in progress at the Yachting Club but the venue was also open to other people. Sardiello is accused of double attempted murder, carrying and illegal possession of firearms,serious injuries and shooting in public places. The 37-year-old has a small history of drug and property crime.

The man, according to the reconstruction of the Flying Squad, first fired at the 2 of Grottaglie, also with a criminal record, after which, turning 180 degrees on himself, he exploded at least 3 more shots to gain space and facilitate the escape from the club. At least 6 9-caliber rounds that were fired. For the young man from Grottaglie hospitalized in vascular surgery in reserved prognosis and subjected to surgery, the conditions are defined as stable by local health authorities. There is a recovery of the injured and between tomorrow and the day after the doctors could dissolve the

prognosis.

Meanwhile, the special commission against mafia and criminal phenomena set up on 20 July by the Regional Council of Puglia will begin its work from Taranto and the case of the shooting at the Yachting Club. This was announced today by the president of the new commission, Renato Perrini, regional councilor of Fratelli d 'Italy. "The seriousness of the shooting between very young people in Taranto - declares Perrini - opens up a worrying scenario although I hope it was an isolated episode. This is why I decided to start my tour in the Apulian provinces from Taranto. prefect, the commissioner and the commander of the Carabinieri - announces Perrini - to understand what the situation in Taranto is and any dynamics that lie behind these episodes,in order to immediately activate ourselves as a commission and study the phenomenon ".

In the investigation into the shooting with ten young people injured on the night between Wednesday and Thursday in the Yacthing club of San Vito in Taranto, where a university party was also underway, the administrative police of the Police sanctions for violation of the anti-Covid rules, against the owners of both the discopub and the bar attached to the bathing establishment.

The structure, one of the busiest in the Taranto nightlife, housed about 300 people. From the images of the video surveillance it emerged the presence, in the bar area of ​​the beach, of about 200 patrons without masks and at an interpersonal distance less than that established by the anti-Covid regulations. In addition to the sanction of 400 euros, the bar activity was closed for 5 days. The owner of the discotheque was charged with the administrative offense for not having suspended the dance activity with numerous patrons without a mask on the "discotheque floor - explains a note from the Police Headquarters -. The circumstance that it was a dance evening with the presence of consoles and disc jockey has been confirmed by some patrons ".

Following the arrest just a few hours after the shooting of the 37-year-old Umberto Sardiello from Taranto, with small precedents, the investigations continue to ascertain the motive. The 37-year-old shot at two offenders from Grottaglie (Taranto) with whom he had had a quarrel and against some customers while he was fleeing, to make room and earn the exit. A 28-year-old from Grottaglie, one of the main targets, was shot in the legs and is on a reserved prognosis in the vascular surgery ward, two other injured are hospitalized in the orthopedics ward. Seven young people discharged from hospital with prognosis between 15 and 30 days.