È It was Massimo Tarantino, former player of Napoli, Inter and Bologna, who stopped the 46-year-old who yesterday stabbed 5 people in the Milanofiori shopping centre in Assago, in the province of Milan.
Man Killed Cashier at Carrefour Supermarket Luis Fernando Ruggieri, a 30-year-old of South American origins. Tarantino stopped the 46-year-old, who is still under guard in the hospital, handing him over to the Carabinieri of Corsico, who intervened on site.“I didn't do anything special, I'm not a hero”: Massimo Tarantino shielded himself like this.
As chance would have it, one of the injured was also part of the football world, the 29-year-old Spanish defender Monza Pablo Mari'. “He just screamed and screamed”, Tarantino told the cameras that he hung up his boots in 2006 after 203 appearances in Serie A to become a sports manager: first at Pavia, then in the youth sectors of Bologna and Roma, finally a year as technical director at Spal, until last June.
In his career Tarantino played as a left back and occasionally as a central defender and can boast of having been a teammate of champions such as Diego Armando Maradona at Napoli, Ronaldo the Phenomenon at Inter and Roberto Baggio at Bologna.
Born in Palermo, with his father Bartolomeo (who also played in Serie A with Venezia) and two of his four footballer brothers, Massimo Tarantino grew up as a footballer in the Cosmos of the Sicilian capital before moving to Catania with whom he made his debut in C1 in the 1987-1988 season. From 1989 to 1996 he played for Napoli (but with two loans to Monza and Barletta), then for Inter, a dream come true (as a child he was a huge Nerazzurri fan) but for only one season tormented by an injury.
In November 1997 he moved to Bologna, where he played for 5 seasons. The last years of his career were in Como, Triestina and Pavia. Now his greatest commitment is to enhance young people in Italian football: "Our youth sectors are full of talent, we just can't offer them an adequate path", he said in a recent interview, "there is no lack of talent, but of training and development path".
He arrived by bicycle at the 'Milano Fiori' shopping centre in Assago, in the hinterland of Milan, Andrea Tombolini, the 46-year-old arrested for murder and attempted multiple murder for stabbing six people who were shopping at Carrefour. The man, born in Milan and with no criminal record, lives with his father, mother and sister.
Unemployed, investigators and detectives describe him as a lonely person, with serious mental problems, who used to ride his bicycle around the city. He had been undergoing treatment for severe depression for a year.
Pablo Mari' will undergo back surgery today
Monza's Spanish defender Pablo Mari', 29, will be operated on this morning at the "Niguarda" hospital. He was stabbed multiple times in the back by a madman last night in a Carrefour supermarket in the Milanofiori shopping center in Assago. This was confirmed by sources at the Milan hospital. Mari' will be operated on his back, where he was stabbed with a knife by the 47-year-old Italian attacker, who is now under arrest in a city psychiatric hospital.
The footballer had received a visit yesterday evening from coach Raffaele Palladino and CEO Adriano Galliani: “He is lucid, he is very strong, he even said 'I will be on the pitch on Monday evening'. He has incredible strength”, the testimony of the Brianza manager.
Attacker to PM, I thought I was sick.
“I thought I was sick, that I was ill. I saw all those happy people, who were well, and I felt envious”: this is what Andrea Tombolini said in summary to the Milan prosecutor Paolo Storari who arrested him, on charges of murder and attempted multiple murder, for having stabbed people between the shelves of the Carrefour supermarket in a shopping center in Assago, in the Milan area. In the next few hours the prosecutor will forward the request to validate the arrest of the 46-year-old, who was being treated for mental problems, and is now under guard at the San Paolo hospital in the Psychiatry department.
Article published on 28 October 2022 - 11:02
