Operation of safe roads: military personnel foils an attack

07/03/15

- In the early hours of yesterday, two Army soldiers belonging to the 1 Regiment of Milan, engaged in the operation "Safe Roads", while they were free from the service near the historic center of the capital of Lombardy, intervened to block and disarming a young man who, armed with a knife, was about to assault a contemporary in front of the entrance to a famous disco.

The timely intervention of the military allowed to deliver the attacker to the public security authorities intervened on the spot.

The Army soldiers, from August 2008, participate in the Operation Safe Roads in competition and jointly with the Police Forces and to ensure safety and to prevent petty crime in many Italian cities.

Source: Command of the Land Operational Forces