The man had been caught at home in the hamlet of Santopadre stealing with other people. The owner, owner of a tobacconist, had already been robbed in the past
“While he was running away with his accomplices, he pointed the gun at me. So I shot myself. ‘ In shock, with his hands still trembling, Sandro Fiorelli, 58, owner of the family tobacconist’s shop in Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, in the center of Santopadre, between Arce and Arpino, in the province of Frosinone, thus explains to the carabinieri what happened at 7.40 pm yesterday in front of his house, in via Decime, at the gates of the town. A residential area, with tree-lined paths and small street lamps, where until late evening the investigators of the Arma carried out an inspection at the point where he fell, shot to death by a 34-year-old Romanian, Mirel Joaca Bine.
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A replica pistol was found next to the body, loaded with blanks. The tobacconist remained for hours in the carabinieri barracks of Sora’s company: the merchant who reported that he had suffered a theft in his home where he had just returned, perhaps with some family members, gave the alarm. “We had just come home when I heard noises coming from the upper floor,” the shopkeeper would have said again. So something in the action of the commando of thieves did not go the right way: Bine would have fled together with other people, three according to the tobacconist, holding a gun that looked real. Which he would then aim at the victim. At least this is the version provided by the 58-year-old, which in the past would have already been targeted by criminals, because the carabinieri are looking for confirmation of his story. Investigations were also carried out in the house, to understand how the thieves got into action and what they took away. Seized the shotgun, regularly held by the landlord, and also the replica. It is unclear whether Bine opened fire to frighten the victim of the theft, and this is an aspect that could prove decisive in determining whether the 58-year-old acted in self-defense.
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An Ares 118 ambulance, some police patrols and the Cassino prosecutor Marina Marra also intervened on the spot, who ordered the autopsy. It is not excluded that those who investigate may also acquire video surveillance footage from some cameras in the area in the next few hours that they may have picked up something useful to understand how it really went. In the meantime, the search for the accomplices of the 34-year-old killed went on all night in the countryside of Santopadre: they could have gone away with a car or perhaps with other people who helped them in the assault on the tobacconist’s villa. Among the hypotheses there is also the one that the group may be responsible for home thefts recently committed in the area between the Sorano and Val di Comino.
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October 25, 2021 (change October 25, 2021 | 22:43)
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