«Wednesday night, around half past one, he threw me to the floor, climbed on top of me, punched me on the hips and put his hands around my neck, tried to strangle me, until I managed to free myself and ran away Street”. Jonathan Gobbato, a thirty-year-old who regularly frequents the Baraonda bar run by Chinese immigrants in the center of Villafranca, knows Giacomo Friso’s anger well, the man arrested for the murder of Michael Boschetto: he experienced it first hand four days ago. «I think he wanted a cigarette because he took mine that I was holding between my lips with his hands, and he laid me on the ground, then it passed to him, he left my neck and I left immediately because I realized that it was bad , but he was like that with others too, he jumped at you for nothing, everyone here knew to stay away from him… we were friends when we were 14, then we took two different paths. We didn’t know he had returned from the community, we found him here wandering around like a madman.”
The incidents of violence
The first episode of violence, therefore, dates back to the night between Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th April, the owner of the bar called the police but they could no longer find anyone on site. On Thursday morning, however, Friso returns to Camisano Vicentino: another bar, another outburst. Someone calls the police, when they arrive he threatens and attacks them, six of them have to intervene because his anger is uncontainable. The morning ends with a complaint for resisting a public official, it seems that immediately afterwards he was taken to hospital, the police are still trying to reconstruct all the episodes in detail. Thursday evening Friso is out and about again, this time they see him with a knife in his hand, he even brandished the weapon pointing it at another customer’s neck. This third time too, the Limena carabinieri would have been called, but when the military arrived in the small square of the bar, Friso was unarmed: at that point any restrictive action against him was impossible. «We called Giacomo “furia” because he was wild, uncontainable, he wasn’t clear-headed, you could see that he was ill – explains his friend Andrea Garavello – I don’t know how he could go around in those conditions without anyone stopping him.” In the village they know everything about his past, it seemed that he was done with drugs: over two years closed in a community in Breganze, where he himself had decided to go, should have represented his new beginning. It was not so.
The victim’s grandfather: it seems like a nightmare to me
However, Michael Boschetto had had a new beginning, having given up with his past and drugs. He had found a girl, Blen, who loved him. The news of his murder reached his paternal grandfather who lives near via Gomiero. «He was my only grandson, I still can’t believe it». He continues to repeat it through tears Faustino Piccolo, 87 years old, maternal grandfather of Michael Boschetto. “I never thought I would receive a phone call like the one this morning, it seems like a nightmare to me – he added – now I have to talk to my son-in-law and understand what we as family members can do, but this news has destroyed me”. For his grandson, like every grandfather, he dreamed of a peaceful future, stability, one day, perhaps, even grandchildren. «He had two jobs, he always worked hard and was a positive person. Since he didn’t earn much with the first one, he supplemented his income by working as a waiter when he could. I was also happy because he had found a good girl and they were good together. I would have liked to help him find an apartment, a house of his own, I had even talked to him about it, but he wanted to manage on his own. I last saw him a fortnight ago, and now he’s gone.”
