A person who within the mid-Nineties killed the inheritor to the Italian vogue home Gucci was arrested on suspicion of capturing his personal son on Tuesday earlier than trying to kill himself within the Italian province of Pisa, the police stated.
Investigators have been nonetheless attempting to piece collectively what occurred within the small city of Santa Maria a Monte, the province’s Carabinieri police stated in a information launch on Wednesday.
Each the person, Benedetto Ceraulo, and his son, Gaetano, have been hospitalized, with the daddy below guard and in severe situation on Wednesday, officers stated. The son was reported to not be in crucial situation, however no specifics got.
Officers stated that they believed that the elder Mr. Ceraulo, who shot Maurizio Gucci, the fashion heir, in 1995, was set off on Tuesday by a seemingly small slight: He observed a scratch on his automotive, they stated, and flew right into a match of rage at his son.
He then grabbed a small caliber pistol and shot his son earlier than attempting to kill himself, officers stated. The elder Mr. Ceraulo, who’s in his 60s, was arrested on suspicion of tried homicide and possession of an unlawful weapon.
The capturing befell nearly precisely 30 years after Mr. Ceraulo fired the photographs that killed Mr. Gucci — against the law that his ex-wife was convicted of ordering, and which was depicted within the 2021 movie “House of Gucci.”
Mr. Gucci, who inherited 50 % of the household enterprise after the loss of life of his father in 1983, had spent his personal and the corporate’s earnings so rapidly that he was pressured to promote his shares to a Bahrain-based funding group, Investcorp, 10 years later.
In March 1995, he was shot four times outdoors his workplace in Milan — twice from behind, and twice within the face at brief vary — by a gunman with a pistol with a silencer, the police stated on the time. He was 45.
For nearly two years, few particulars emerged about his killing.
Then, the police arrested Mr. Gucci’s ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, Mr. Ceraulo and others. A court docket discovered that Mr. Ceraulo had killed him on Ms. Reggiani’s orders.
Ms. Reggiani was convicted and sentenced in 1998 to 29 years in prison. She was released in 2014 after serving 16 years of her 29-year sentence. Mr. Ceraulo, who acquired a life sentence on the identical time, was launched from jail a number of years in the past.
The small city of Santa Maria a Monte, about 20 miles east of Pisa in northwest Italy, was “shocked” by the occasions of this week, Manuela Del Grande, the city’s mayor, stated in an interview.
“Issues like this don’t occur in our little metropolis,” she stated, including that they didn’t even know that Mr. Ceraulo lived there.
