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Man stabs and seriously injures robber he caught burgling his home

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 24 - A 50-year-old man stabbed and seriously injured a hooded robber after catching him burgling his home in Ramacca, near the Sicilian city of Catania, early on Friday, sources said. The homeowner wounded the 37-year-old intruder with a kitchen knife during a violent struggle, the sources said. The Eastern European burglar tried to flee but was tracked down a short distance from the home by Carabinieri police. He is in hospital in a serious condition in the town of Caltagirone and is under guard following his arrest for burglary and aggravated assault. The case is likely to fuel a passionate debate about self defence and victims' right to respond to crime after Mario Roggero, a 72-year-old Italian jeweller, was sentenced to 14 years and nine months in prison for shooting dead two robbers and wounding a third as they fled after a heist at his store in 2021. The plight of Roggero, who entered prison last week after the supreme court upheld his conviction, making it definitive, has caused widespread dismay and outrage in Italy. Premier Giorgia Meloni said Sunday that Roggero's punishment was "disproportionate" and several members of the government have called for him to be granted a pardon. (ANSA). Read article...