Council official slashes disabled man's tyres

An Italian council official knifed the tyres of a disabled man’s car after being fined for parking in the disabled spot.

Antonio Piazza habitually parked his Jaguar in the disabled carpark outside his office in Lecco, but became angry when police fined him and ordered him to move it, according to a report in The Guardian.

Piazza was captured on CCTV shortly afterwards returning to slash the tyres of the disabled driver whose Renault had taken the parking spot. 

The report says Piazza had initially argued against being given a ticket, claiming he had parked there while giving a lift to a disabled person.

However, under pressure from his poltical party – beleagured Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom, which is the subject of a slew of scandals and corruption claims – Piazza has now resigned from his position overseeing a housing agency.

"I made a mistake, but there are people who behave even worse,” he is quoted as saying in the report.