Shimpei Tominaga, the 56-year-old Japanese entrepreneur who was punched while trying to break up a fight, died on Wednesday in Udine hospital. The man had been hospitalized for four days in Intensive Care and last night the commission to determine brain death was activated. As the prosecutor of Udine, Massimo Lia, had made known, […]
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Shimpei Tominaga, the 56-year-old Japanese entrepreneur, hit by a punch while trying to break up a fight, died on Wednesday in Udine hospital. The man had been hospitalized for four days in Intensive Care and last night the commission to determine brain death was activated.
As the prosecutor of Udine, Massimo Lia, had made known, the position of Samuele Battistella, the twenty-year-old from Mareno di Piave (Treviso) who had thrown the punch, would have worsened in the event of the man’s death. In fact now the crime accused of him is that of Pre-Intentional Murder. The boy is in prison in Udine together with two peers; all three are residents of the Treviso area.
The man had taken 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 by punching him and making him fall to the ground. He hit his head on the edge of the sidewalk and suffered multiple skull fractures.
The Flying Squad and the police squad cars had instead tracked down five boys shortly afterwards and taken them to the police station. They are also nailed by the video surveillance footage and the cell phone footage taken by some witnesses. Tominaga was the owner of a well-known import-export company, trading furniture from Japan where his wife and son live, who left immediately to join him.
