A man stabbed a Carabiniere who had come to stop a domestic dispute and then holed up in his house in Porto Torres near Sassari on Friday.
The Carabiniere was named as Roberto Frau, the brother of Walter Frau, another Carabiniere who was killed with a colleague by a gang of robbers at Chilivani near Sassari in August 1995.
Roberto Frau was rushed to hospital where he was said to be in a non-serious condition.
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