The gymnastics champion suffers a robbery and kills the thief: “he came for my mobile phone and took some punches”

“Milan is a scary City. There is no security in this jungle of cities , all kinds of things happen every day… He came to take my cell phone and took some punches to the face.”. This is how it starts Nicola Bartolini, world gymnastics champion, Narrating the robbery that he had the other night at his door.

Gold on the floor at the 2021 worlds and sixth with Italy in the team final at the Paris Games, He told on his social networks how he was attacked by a thief when he was taking his dog. He grabbed him by the neck and shouted at him to give him the mobile phone.

She accompanied her story with a photo of the wound on her hand and a bump on her forehead that was left after confronting the attacker.  “I consider myself lucky that I received only one punch, and my poor attacker certainly had more bad luck,”says Bartolini. As he later said Corriere della Sera, When he tried to escape, he received that blow on his forehead , but then He got over it and the thief knocked down. “At that moment, when he was on the floor, I hit him several times in the face,”he says.

Bartolini has been living in Milan since the age of 13 (he is now 28 years old) when he moved to train Federal Technical Center. It also affects what would have happened if the victim had not been him: “I don’t know how it would have ended if it had happened to a woman or a girl,”she says.

Bartolini’s testimony comes almost at the same time as the football player Juan GIS Ermes, center of Naples, revealed that some criminals destroyed his car And that he had already found proven geographical determinants, which is why he emphasized that the city of Naples, despite being a “beautiful city”, would not be safe for him from now on. “I know that material goods are secondary, but knowing that a stranger has assaulted something of my own really disgusts me,”she said.