Venice, the priest publishes the photo of the shop vandal in the church newspaper
Venice, 23 December 2022 – The still image of a video surveillance system, with a masked individual alleged perpetrator of a series of acts of vandalismia shops, was published in the parish newspaper of the church of the Saints Gervasius and Protasius of Carpenedo in Mestre (Venice)from the parish priest.
The decision was made by Father Gianni Antoniazziafter theincident that occurred last weeka told in the weekly “Lettera Aperta”, the bulletin of the church distributed free of charge in the newsstands of the small town and downloadable from the site.
The man, defined by the priest “a hooded youth” he stirred starting at 3 in the morning, smashing the window of a pastry shop with a manhole cover, then with a block of wood he tried to do the same with other windows in the square, until 6 in the morning.
“Without earning anything – adds Don Antoniazzi – it has done enormous damage, it has destroyed the tills of a shop, it has created that classic atmosphere of insecurity that one breathes on these occasions… It is important that we become as much as possible responsible for our area and we do not allow the underworld or what is kindly called ‘petty crime’ to take possession of it”, he concludes.