“Vece, admitted first to the CTO’s intensive care unit and then to the regular wards, underwent three surgeries in less than two weeks. These included a delicate operation to reconstruct his right eyeball, the functionality of which cannot be assessed at this time.During his hospital stay, the officer, who lost his left hand in addition to his eye injury as a result of the explosion, was visited twice by Interior Minister Marco Minniti and Police Chief Franco Gabrielli.”
“Of course, modern New Year’s Eve celebrations are merely a pale reflection of those of antiquity, where eating a slice of panettone and drinking a glass of sparkling wine while watching a concert in the square organized by the mayor only makes you sad. But all it takes is a little imagination to transform boredom into excitement. In Florence, for example, some people decided to say goodbye to 2017 by leaving a gift package in front of the Il Bargello bookstore, linked to the third-millennium fascists of Casa Pound. Was it a… a… loud New Year’s Eve bang? We’re not going to quibble, you get the idea. A patrol from the Digos (Italian Special Operations Division), the usual party poopers, noticed it and alerted the police, who sent their experts to defuse it. And that’s where the first workplace accident of 2017 occurred in the Tuscan capital. The device—or bang, depending on your point of view—in fact exploded just as it was being examined, seriously injuring the bomb disposal expert who was handling it.So now, while the comrades of Gianluca Casseri (the killer of the Senegalese street vendors, killed in Florence in December 2011) must acknowledge that time passes but memory remains, and investigators have launched a hunt for the original revelers, there are some out there who might be laughing, incredulous at having killed two birds with one stone—the reaction and authority.”
