(ANSA) - Catania, December 11 - A 57-year-old Sicilian
jeweller got 13 years in jail Wednesday for shooting dead two
bandits in 2008.
He also wounded the third member of the gang that assaulted
his shop in February that year and threatened to kill his wife
with a gun that turned out to be loaded with blanks and without
the usual red stopper.
The prosecution had asked for 17 years for the jeweller from
Nicolosi, Guido Gianni.
He was also ordered to pay compensation to the families of
the dead men, Davide Laudani and Sebastiano Catania, and of the
wounded man, Fabio Pappalardo.
The court found that Gianni struggled with the three before
they turned tail and fled, and he shot them in the back.
He was thus found guilty of murder and not just excessive
self-defence, which is a crime in Italy.
Jeweller gets 13 yrs for killing robbers
Near Catania in 2008