(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 12 - A man who allegedly attacked an ER chief in Calabria with a cosh Monday night in a fit of rage after being told a relative was not in a condition to be admitted was arrested Tuesday.
    The perpetrator of the attack on the chief physician of the Lamezia Terme emergency room Rosario Procopio, who was hit last night with a truncheon, was arrested by the police for aggravated injuries and possession of objects capable of offending.
    The attacker is a 28-year-old from Lamezia Terme, Carlo Sacco, already known to the police.
    The arrest was made by personnel of the Lamezia Terme Police Station in deferred flagrante delicto, in accordance with new government rules against the phenomenon of attacks on healthcare personnel.
    He is currently in the police station's holding cell awaiting validation by the judicial authority. (ANSA).