Frosinone, the tobacconist who shot to defend himself: “Killing is an accident that cannot be canceled”

Both tobacconists, both hanging by a thread grinding thoughts and hypotheses, waiting for a sentence, while one fact will remain forever: “Having killed a man, even if in self-defense. A misfortune that however happens cannot be canceled”. With these words Franco Birolo, the tobacconist who shot and killed one of the thieves who entered his shop in 2012, turns through the Adnkronos to Sandro Fiorelli, the tobacconist of Frosinone under investigation for murder after yesterday pulled the trigger against a criminal in following an attempted theft in his own home. “I identified with him and relived those moments because I was involved in a similar fact – recalls Birolo – For the rest, every hypothesis is now without foundation, but I am in solidarity with Fiorelli. If I have to choose between staying with a tobacconist or with a thief who has lost his life, I am with the tobacconist who is an honest person, not with a criminal “. “I hope – he continues – that the latest changes in the law to legitimate defense will quickly and in the best possible way exonerate the tobacconist of Frosinone from a long and expensive process of lawyers and experts that otherwise awaits him, also because – he comments – he will still remain the fact of having killed a person. And that is not forgotten. It cannot be erased “.” He will stay awake, nights and nights. And he will be there to grind thoughts, hypotheses: if I had done so …; if I had behaved differently …. Although, as things went, I am happy that the tobacconist came out alive from this robbery. The news teaches – recalls Birolo – that the victim is not always able to get by “. The real fact is one: “after almost 10 years my life is still hanging by a thread. I may have asked for compensation because I killed a man. But in the first place it remains that a person is missing. The rest – concludes the tobacconist who killed in self-defense – they are remedies and hypotheses of the later. We should intervene first, to prevent these criminal acts. Do not wait for the shooting “. (by Roberta Lanzara)