Udine – Shimpei Tominagathe 56-year-old Japanese businessman who was punched during a fight, died on Wednesday 26 June in Udine hospital.
The man had been hospitalized for four days in intensive care. On Tuesday the 25th the commission for the assessment of brain death was activated.
On the night of Friday 21 June Tominaga filmed a group of 5 young people in a state of alcoholic alteration because they were making noise and causing disturbances. The incident occurred around three in the morning in a place that remains open until the morning.
The boys had targeted him and a fight had broken out; one of them had punched him, causing him to fall. He hit his head on the ground and suffered multiple skull fractures.
The young people had all been identified and stopped by the police.
Now for Samuele Battistella, the twenty-year-old from Mareno di Piave (TV), who had thrown the fatal punch, the position has worsened: the crime charged against him is that of manslaughter.
Citizen mourning in Udine
There is great condolence in Udine and in the Region. Mayor Alberto Felice De Toni proclaimed the citizen mourning on Wednesday 26 June 2024 “as evidence of the closeness of the entire City to fellow citizen Shimpei Tominaga, who courageously intervened in a scuffle that occurred on the night of last Friday 21st, leaving us on Wednesday 25th”.
“It invites public businesses, commercial and artisan businesses, public institutions, social, cultural and productive organisations, owners of every kind of business and citizens as a whole to express their condolences in the forms deemed appropriate”.
The flag of the city of Udine will be displayed at half-mast or at half-mast on public buildings.
