Milan: stinging spray in the metro, sickness among passengers

Chaos and fear in metro a Milan where, due to the spray of pepper spray, several passengers accused the station of illness Cimiano metro. To make it known was the 118. The relief workers, intervened in the station of the subway line M2 Milan, visited several people on the spot. Of the ten relief operations, including some minors, no one was taken to the hospital.

According to Ansa, just before 3 pm, a cloud of oleoresin capsicum, the substance that exploits the active principle of capsaicin, invaded the access area to the meter, investing ten people passed in that point immediately after.

There are 6 females (including a 1-year-old baby) and 4 males: they have all experienced breathing difficulties and burning eyes, mostly discomforts that disappeared with each passing minute.

THE'Milanese Transport Company it blocked circulation until 3.25 pm, however allowing the transit of trains without stopping.

The police took footage of the station's cameras in an attempt to identify the author of the gesture, on which there is no indication at the moment. Among the hypotheses there is also the possibility that it is linked precisely to today's strike.

Yesterday morning, Thursday 24 October, an identical episode took place in the city at the Galvani Institute of Higher Education in Via Gatti: on that occasion, 5 students (aged between 14 and 16) and a professor 43-year-olds were slightly intoxicated due to a vaporized spray near the second-floor staircase.

According to what reconstructed by Carabinieri, he would have been a student (not yet identified) during the interval.

VIRGILIO NEWS | 25-10-2019 17:38

Photo source: Ansa