Arriving on a stolen scooter, the darkness of 5 in the morning, the shutter torn off with a jack or a crowbar, the blitz in the bar to grab what was in the cash register and reams of scratch cards, clearly visible on the counter. Perhaps Eros Di Ronza, a 37-year-old subject to the obligation to report to the judicial police with various criminal records for resisting arrest and robbery, thought it would be an “easy job”. But it didn’t go that way.
Three children and a life on the margins as a young criminal, Di Ronza died in front of a bar on Viale Giovanni da Cermenate, on the southern outskirts of Milan, killed with scissors by two citizens of Chinese origin, a thirty-year-old and a 48-year-old, nephew and husband of the owner of the bar, who live in the same building as the place .
They were awakened by the alarm and went down the street, scissors in hand, to confront the thief. Or rather the thieves. Di Ronza was in fact with an accomplice who acted as lookout , a 48-year-old with a criminal record, who was found in the afternoon by investigators in his home on Via Tibaldi and reported for attempted theft. The man had managed to free himself from the two Chinese who had come down from the house and had fled.
It didn't go that way for the 37-year-old, who was hit by a scissors blow to the chest, the first time while he was still under the torn-off shutter. Then he was chased for a few meters and hit at least 20 times with the scissors until he collapsed on the ground, dying . When the 118 emergency services arrived, called by the younger of the two Chinese men, there was nothing more that could be done for the man. Next to his body was a trail of blood several meters long and a ream of bloody scratch cards. Di Ronza was also hit when he was on the ground, finished off with the final cuts of the scissors.
And for this reason it was not possible to hypothesize any hypothesis of self-defense : that of the 37-year-old, according to the first investigations, is a voluntary homicide. A reconstruction confirmed by the images of the cameras that filmed the phases of the drama, with the inhabitants of the area awakened by the screams of the victim and her attackers and by the sirens of ambulances and Police.
