MILAN - Two Chinese citizens confronted a man stealing dozens of lottery tickets from their bar in Milan. The intruder was killed by 20 blows from a pair of scissors, according to the Milan Police Department

The husband and uncle of the bar's owner awoke to the sound of their bar’s security alarm going off. Once downstairs, they discovered di Ronza stealing and stabbed him with a pair of scissors. After 20 blows, the man was dead. The two men, aged 30 and 49, utilized their right to remain silent during questioning at the police station by prosecutor Maura Ripamonti. The younger man called for help during the robbery and investigators used the phone call as a semi-confession, which lead to the arrest.

 The criminal, Di Ronza, aged 37, arrived at the bar by scooter with an accomplice, who served as a lookout. He forced open the shutter of the bar and gathered many Scratch and Win cards. Once the alarm went off, he tried to force his way back out of the shutter but was confronted by the two men, and a pair of scissors, once outside. Initial investigators ruled out the use of the scissors as an “act of self-defense.”

 The patrol officers of the Office of General Prevention and Public Aid of the Milan Police Headquarters arrived on via Giovanni da Cermenate soon after 5. According to the reconstruction of the police, they found Di Ronza lying outside the bar with several stab wounds. The investigators of the State Police are still trying to trace the identification of the accomplice.

 The two men’s lawyers, Eugenio Rogliani and Simone Ciro Giordano defended them by saying, "Our clients are not angry and violent people. They have always lived off their work and have never caused harm or disturbance to anyone”.

 The prosecutor Maura Ripamonti ordered their arrest after the investigations of the General Prevention Office of the Police Headquarters. The cafe called Ji Sufen bar has been the victim of five robberies, with three occurring within the last three months. In fact, last April, the Milan Court of Appeal discharged the owner of a bar who shot and killed a thief who was trying to break into his restaurant, according to Il Fatto Quotidiano. 

 I know the owners very well” a resident and frequenter of the bar spoke to Adnkronos. “They are good people, who always work, even 16 hours a day and have run the bar for more than 20 years”.

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