A person who within the mid-Nineteen Nineties killed the inheritor to the Italian style home Gucci was arrested on suspicion of taking pictures his personal son on Tuesday earlier than making an attempt to kill himself within the Italian province of Pisa, the police mentioned.
Investigators have been nonetheless making an attempt to piece collectively what occurred within the small city of Santa Maria a Monte, the province’s Carabinieri police mentioned in a information launch on Wednesday.
Each the person, Benedetto Ceraulo, and his son, Gaetano, have been hospitalized, with the daddy underneath guard and in severe situation on Wednesday, officers mentioned. The son was reported to not be in essential situation, however no specifics got.
Officers mentioned 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 seen a scratch on his automotive, they mentioned, and flew right into a match of rage at his son.
He then grabbed a small caliber pistol and shot his son earlier than making an attempt to kill himself, officers mentioned. The elder Mr. Ceraulo, who’s in his 60s, was arrested on suspicion of tried homicide and possession of an unlawful weapon.
The taking pictures came about virtually precisely 30 years after Mr. Ceraulo fired the pictures 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 dying of his father in 1983, had spent his personal and the corporate’s revenue so rapidly that he was compelled 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 quick vary — by a gunman with a pistol with a silencer, the police mentioned 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 obtained a life sentence on the similar time, was launched from jail a couple 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, mentioned in an interview.
“Issues like this don’t occur in our little metropolis,” she mentioned, including that they didn’t even know that Mr. Ceraulo lived there.
