What is certain is that they wanted him dead and couldn’t wait. So on Thursday evening, having arrived in the area on board an old black Seat, after having asked him in very unconvivial tones to go and have a drink with them for an imaginary and still mysterious “clarification”, faced with his polite but firm refusal, they waited except that night came and he fell asleep next to his pregnant wife inside the gray “Fiat Ducato” van that the couple used as a home, parked on the edge of the roadway in Via Varsavia, an eastern outskirts of Milan, in front of the vegetable market and not far away from Linate airport. And shortly after 3, armed with clubs, hammers and guns, they went into action in a group of 4 or 5 men, with the violence and determination of those who have a specific objective, but who also drank a lot. Jhonny Sulejmanovic, 18 years old, born in Turin but with a Bosnian passport, with no criminal record, had no escape. With three bullets in his chest (but the 7.65 caliber shell casings found on the asphalt would be many more, at least double) the boy died a couple of hours after his arrival at the hospital.
«It was clear that he was a goner: the ambulance rescuers found him dying on the pavement, already unconscious, with his family members throwing water on him to revive him – says a resident who was woken up by the shattered glass -. Relatives shuttled here and to the hospital all night. And when they learned that the boy was dead, in the neighborhood we understood it immediately because we heard them shouting, then they abandoned themselves to scenes of anger and desperation, even throwing themselves at some passing motorists.”
Next to the boy, the operators of Areu (Regional Emergency Emergency Company) found and assisted his wife, a girl of the same age named Samantha, in the fourth month of pregnancy. Her husband’s assassins didn’t even touch her, but the girl witnessed every phase of the attack, and when the ambulances arrived she was in shock, stunned by terror and anguish, standing motionless between the glass of the side windows and of the rear window smashed by the killers with clubs during the assault.
The murder is being investigated by the detectives of the “homicide” section of the flying squad, led by the deputy commissioner Domenico Balsamo and the manager Alfonso Iadevaia who, in addition to his wife, also interviewed the parents and brothers of the dead boy at the police station, camped not far from his van .
While Johnny’s sister consoles herself with a bottle of whiskey and claims that the killers “were gypsies, just like us, Bosnian gypsies”, one of the brothers, Kevin, in the grip of resentment, says he is convinced that he knows one of the attackers and he too explains the reason for the deadly raid, declaring that a few hours earlier “my brother had refused to go drinking with them”. A motive, as we were saying, half true, but certainly linked to much more, even if not necessarily to a criminal blunder. «The boy and his wife had moved from Turin to Milan three weeks ago, parking the Fiat Ducato in via Warsaw, in a place where, however, other Bosnians had told him that he couldn’t stay there and that he had to leave. He remained there.
A choice that could have been fatal to him” explains an investigator.
