MERANO. Il 36 year old Kosovar who on Saturday at 18 fired several gunshots (in the air) in Prader square, near the station, creating panic among the residents is already free. Yesterday the investigating judge Elsa Vesco he gave his approval to the release in the face of the defendant’s willingness to negotiate for receiving stolen goods (the gun was found to be stolen) and illegal carrying of weapons. “The sentence should be around two years,” they explain Nicola Nettis e corrado faeslawyers of the small building entrepreneur who has lived in the Merano area for some time.
The defendant: “I shot to defend myself”.
Curious and worrying at the same time the background of the whole story that does not allow us to exclude an (attempted) settlement of accounts or a dispute between rival gangs. “I shot in the air only to defend myself”: the 36-year-old told his lawyers. «Our client has a head wound, compatible with an assault, and he had already been hit on the head in the past, as evidenced by the 26 stitches he already had. Yesterday he admitted, in any case, his responsibilities before the investigating judge for what happened on Saturday in Piazzale Prader. He fired into the air (with a weapon that turned out to be stolen), making a mistake, for fear of being attacked, as has already happened in the past ».
The 36-year-old had been charged with aggravated threat.
The building contractor residing in Merano, owner of a company, is also not a stranger to the police. Well before Saturday’s episode, he had been charged with aggravated threat, due to the use of a cutting weapon. The outlines of the whole affair still remain to be defined but the carabinieri are investigating the facts.