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This Football Player Rushed Out Of His Home At 3am To Save A Woman Being Attacked

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An Italian football player is winning significant plaudits after he ran out of his apartment to save a woman being attacked in his neighbourhood.
Riccardo Meggiorini turns out as a striker for Chievo Verona in the Italian top flight, and become an instant hero with his actions.
Meggiorini, 31, heard screams outside his apartment around 2:30am early Saturday, screams that sounded like a woman crying for help. He descended from his fourth floor apartment after asking his girlfriend to call the police, and went out to help the lady.
Meggiorini managed to overpower the assailant and hold him down until police arrived.
The forward narrated his experience to Italy’s sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport.

I will admit, I’d never sprinted 200 metres at 3am before. I didn’t even get to warm up!” he joked.
“I was asleep, our place is on the fourth floor, then heard a woman screaming outside. It’s often noisy around here after people have had a few too many drinks, but this time it sounded different. She seemed distraught.
“She was shouting ‘Leave me alone, go away’ and tried to run, but a man kept chasing her. I threw on a shirt, shorts and shoes to run down while my girlfriend Silvia called the police.
“As I was running, I could see he was manhandling her, her shirt was torn and then he slammed her up against a parked car. So I barged him over and we all ended up on the ground.”
 
“I can’t even stand seeing violence against women on TV or reading about it in the paper. Seeing it out of my window, I simply had to intervene.
“Afterwards an elderly couple leaned over their balcony and told me I did a good thing, so that was nice. I was very tense, because until those things happen, you don’t know how your heartrate is going to rush.
“At the end I still got back to sleep and in the morning had my usual training session. I chatted about it with a couple of teammates, but it was already behind me then.”

It later turned out the lady was with her ex-boyfriend, and both were drunk at the time. Both were fined €103 for public drunkenness.



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