Claudio Giardiello, who shot at
least three people dead at a Milan courthouse on Thursday,
reportedly owned several businesses in the construction sector.
The 57-year-old was born in Benevento in the southern
Campania region and is a resident of Brugherio, a town in the
northern Lombardy region.
He is reportedly separated from his wife and has two
children, a son and a daughter.
He faced extreme financial difficulties, which sparked
several lawsuits.
One of the men he killed with a shot to the chest today,
37-year-old Lorenzo Alberto Claris Appiani, had been his lawyer
but was in court as a witness in a bankruptcy case against him.
"Giardiello used to be my nephew's client," lawyer
Alessandro Brambilla Pisoni, Appiani's uncle, told ANSA.
"Then he started causing a lot of trouble so my nephew
declined to represent him. I knew he was in court as a witness
today because Giardiello had been sued".
Neighbors of the killer in Brugherio described Giardiello
as a "cordial, very well-mannered person".
"I was speechless when I heard he's the man from the
courthouse shooting," his next-door neighbor told ANSA.
"He always seemed like an easy-going person to me".
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