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    A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning the tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and seriously wounding a third.


    A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning the tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and seriously wounding a third.

    The 28-year-old man, known as "the doctor" for his practice of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, managed to seize one of the two knives carried by his assailants and saw off the entire group with the ferocity of his reaction.

    Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of force.

    The butchery, worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film, began shortly before midnight on Friday when the four men knocked at the apartment of a Chinese hairdresser in the centre of Empoli.

    The hairdresser, her assistant and "the doctor", who operated from the same premises, were reportedly overpowered and tied up before the group, all thought to be in their 20s and 30s, ransacked the apartment.

    Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened to rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money was hidden.

    At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from one of the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.

    Investigators found the body of one man, who had been stabbed in the heart, sprawled on the staircase and another man bleeding to death in the street from a wound to his leg. A third man is recovering in hospital from a punctured lung.

    The doctor was found crouching in the entrance to the building with cuts to his shoulder, face and hands.

    Investigators are trying to determine whether he inflicted the injuries while defending himself inside the apartment, or hunted down the burglars after they had fled.

  • #2
    The whole concept of "how far" in self defense, even if it's in your own home, is a very involved one. Legally, it's not all that simple. This guy could end up being a hero if these idiots fell down the stairs, and he could end up being a felon with murder charges if he followed them down the stairs.

    Actually, tragic and comic at the same time.
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    • #3
      Unfortunately, not far enough can be lethal the other way around...

      It'll be interesting to follow, as this is in a different country.
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