Gjovalin Lazri, the thirty-six-year-old of Albanian origins killed during the night between Saturday and Sunday in Baldissero d'Alba (Cuneo), was reportedly shot from a distance of 30-40 metres while he was fleeing with the rest of the gang.

This is the reconstruction of the facts in the case in which truck driver Roberto Mollo (35), owner of the farmhouse under renovation attacked by thieves, is being investigated for voluntary homicide . The victim, who collapsed after a few meters, was found with two wounds between the neck and shoulder. An autopsy, expected to be ordered tomorrow by the Asti prosecutor's office, and a ballistics test will further clarify the circumstances of the incident.

Mollo had been sleeping in the house under renovation for several days, fearing that his renovation materials would be stolen. This fear materialized during the night between Saturday and Sunday. After hearing the sound of "someone trying to force the door," Corriere della Sera reports, Mollo appeared on the first-floor balcony and began screaming . According to investigators, the screams scared the thieves away. The truck driver, the newspaper reports, nevertheless opened fire, firing 13 of his 15 available rounds, almost the entire magazine of his 9mm Beretta. The thieves were carrying flashlights, and the truck driver apparently aimed in the direction of the beams .

"He was panicking and fired into the air," his lawyer, Pier Mario Morra, told Corriere della Sera. "He's not a gunman; he didn't mean to kill anyone. In fact, he was the one who called for help."

Comparisons with the Roggero case

Baldissero, a municipality in the Roero region, has a population of about a thousand and is about twenty kilometers from Grinzane Cavour, the town where killed two robbers and wounded a third after a robbery at his jewelry store. The comparison between the two events is inevitable.