Mario Cattaneo, 73, from Casaletto Lodigiano, had been charged with culpable excess in self-defense. Prosecutors had requested a three-year jail term in the 'cause celebrity' Police established that the blood belonged to the burglar,28-year-old Petru Ungureanu.
The gun went off during a struggle with the thieves, he said. An autopsy showed he died from a single gunshot to the back. The original possible murder charge against him spurred the right wing populist League party to hold a rally in Verona to urge parliament to speed passage of a bill expanding the right to self defense against criminals. The League leader Matteo Salvini shepherded a billestablishing rules similar to US stand your ground laws to make excessive self- defense prosecutions harder. The court upheld a January 2020 first-instance verdict in Lodi, Italy, in the case of the Romanian burglar who was shot dead at a Milan trattoria in 2017.