Shimpei Tominaga, the 56-year-old Japanese businessman who was punched while trying to break up a fight in Udine, died after four days of agony. The man was hospitalized in the intensive care unit. But since last night the commission to ascertain brain death had been activated. The one who hit Tominaga was Samuele Battistella, 20 years old, from Moreno di Piave, in the province of Treviso. The boy is in prison, together with two peers, all residents of the Treviso area. Battistella is now accused of manslaughter.
The brawl in Udine
In the night between last Friday and Saturday in Udine, the three twenty-year-olds attacked two Ukrainian boys living in Pescara. A fight broke out for work reasons, according to the Gazzettino, in which one of the attacked was injured and tried to take refuge in a restaurant in an attempt to escape the beating. The three twenty-year-olds reached him and it was there that Shimpei Tominaga and two other friends of his tried to break up the fight. As emerged from the investigations, Battistella punched the Japanese businessman in the face, who had suffered multiple skull fractures in the fall.
