He took the defense of a young bloody foreigner, who had taken refuge in a shop because he was being chased by some boys. He limited himself to calling for calm and one of the pursuers reacted throwing a punch and causing him to fall to the ground. He beat the head on the corner of the sidewalk and suffered multiple skull fractures. It’s the dynamic that brought about Shimpei Tominaga, 56 years old, Japanese entrepreneur who lives in Udine, who is hospitalized at the end of his life in the intensive care unit of the hospital in the Friulian capital. Tominaga holds a note import-export company, sells furniture from the Japan where his wife and son live, who left immediately to join him. The attackers are between 20 and 25 years old, all resident in Italy, even if with families of origin of different nationalities. And they were all stopped by the police flying squad on charges of aggravated brawl And injuries very serious. Now the court will decide whether to transform the measure into precautionary custody, still in prison. The charge could change, for the worse, if the victim doesn’t make it: in that case the manslaughter would be contested.
According to the police reconstruction, around 3.30 last night, in via Pelliccerie, in center of Udineshowed up at the club Very good kebab, asking for help, a young foreigner bleeding. At least three other boys were chasing him. Tominaga, together with a friend, tried to calm things down and defend the attacker but one of the pursuers punched him without even thinking about it. Tominaga, falling to the ground, hit his head on the pavement. He suffered a cardiac arrest but was treated immediately, stabilized on the spot and taken by ambulance to the Santa Maria della Misericordia hospital where he was admitted to intensive care.
The Flying Squad and the police squad cars tracked down the five boys shortly afterwards and took them to the police station. There are currently twenty-year-olds in prison Samuele Battistellafrom Mareno di Piave, and Daniel Wedamfrom Conegliano, the 22 year old Abdallah Djouamaaalso from Conegliano, Ivan Boklac29 years old, Ukrainian living in Pescaralike his compatriot Oleksandr Vitaliyovjch Petrov30. To nail them – as the Veneto Messenger – there would also be video surveillance footage and cell phone footage taken by some witnesses. It remains to be understood why the five decided to reach Udine from the Treviso area.
The affair has reopened, and in an even more heated way, the debate on public security in Udine. The case occurred a few hours after a stabbing suffered by a 39-year-old Venezuelan in the Borgo Stazione neighborhood. a large territorial control operation in which agents from the Police Headquarters and the “Lombardy” Crime Prevention Department participated. Attention is focused in particular on youth groups who exercise unbridled physical violence. “What happened leaves us speechless” says the president of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region Maximilian Fedriga. “When it happened in Udine it was very serious and at this moment my thoughts go to Shimpei Tominaga, who is fighting for his life in a hospital bed after being brutally attacked”. Fedriga underlines that Tominaga had integrated into the Friulian community, “becoming a productive and esteemed member and demonstrated all his courage to defend another person in difficulty. When this happened he leaves us speechless.” “The last period – continues Fedriga – has seen a series of violent acts that were intolerable from every point of view. We cannot accept that our cities, which have always been an example of liveability, are hostage to violent people and aggressors.” The Democratic Party deputy also intervened in the case Debora Serracchiani who hoped for “the harshest condemnation of the community and institutions” for a “shocking, disproportionate and gratuitous act of violence”.
