Castellammare, 78-year-old man arrested for setting fire to neighbor's door

Far from being a good neighbor. In Castellammare di Stabia, a condominium dispute escalated into a potentially tragic act: a 78-year-old man attempted to set fire to the upstairs neighbor's house because he was bothered by the noise coming from the apartment.

According to the reconstruction by the Carabinieri of the Castellammare di Stabia company, the incident occurred during the night in a building at Via Brambilla 31. The elderly man allegedly doused the front door of a fifth-floor apartment with flammable liquid and then set it on fire, attempting to attack the neighbors who, he claimed, were disturbing him.

The quick thinking of those inside the house prevented the worst from happening.

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Awakened by strange noises, the residents managed to put out the flames with great difficulty. One of the residents, a 38-year-old pregnant woman, sustained injuries to her feet during the frantic extinguishing process: doctors diagnosed the injuries as healing within thirty days.

Also present on site were the firefighters , which confirmed the arsonist nature of the fire. The subsequent search by the Carabinieri of the elderly man's apartment led to the seizure of a canister containing gasoline and a knife the man was carrying. They also recovered the lighter that was believed to have been used to start the blaze.

The 78-year-old, arrested on charges of incendio doloso and personal injury, he was transferred to prison. Investigators are reconstructing the neighborly relationship, already marked by tension and conflict, that led the man to commit this insane act.

Comments (2)

It's a thought-provoking situation; it's not normal for people to go this far. Noises between neighbors can be annoying, but setting a house on fire isn't the right solution; there needs to be dialogue.

There are those who think that everything is allowed, there are those who suffer, then there are those who mind their own business until it happens to them, and there are the condominium administrators who are the worst, they call serious things, and if they really have to call back they call the sheep, we are fed up with these presumptuous and arrogant people, when we start to act like serious people, well who knows, maybe