A 50-year-old farmer on Sunday
stabbed a 54-year-old farmer in Puglia in a mistaken vendetta
for a lab test the man thought had caused his son to be mentally
handicapped.
The child was born with an intellectual disability which the
aggressor took to be the result of an amniocentesis performed on
his mother while pregnant.
The man spent 10 years looking for the nurse who had carried out
the test - regularly used for the prenatal diagnosis of
chromosomal abnormalities and fetal infections - and believed he
had tracked him down to Canosa di Puglia.
He believed the nurse had left the hospital in Trani and now
become a farmer.
But he got the wrong man, and stabbed the innocent farmer who
has had a delicate operation because one of the stab wounds
perforated a lung.
The farmer who stabbed the man is now in custody on charges f
attempted murder.
When he inflicted the two stand wounds on the farmer's chest and
abdomen, the other farmer shouted "this is for my son".
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