Friars attacked in a convent. Maybe it was a robbery. One of them is likely permanent injury, is in serious condition!
Investigations are continuing to determine why the criminals have entered the convent of Saint Columba and Belmonte have killed the brothers. The Friars Minor of Piedmont pray and ask forgiveness for the attackers.
The most reliable is the slope of the robbery, but investigators did not explore further this hypothesis. Sull'assalto last night at the convent of St. Columban Belmonte, where three masked bandits brutally attacked reducing a four Franciscan friars in dying, the police, led by Colonel Antonio De Vita of the provincial command, and the magistrate Elena Daloiso maintain the utmost confidentiality. According to a first reconstruction of the dynamics (there are no witnesses, except the victims have not yet been heard by two investigators because they are unable to speak) the bandits entered the dining hall from the woodshed. There was no forced the door open for all. The brothers were at the table. Father Emanuel was the first, hearing noises in the hallway, to intervene and deal with intruders. Immediately came to his aid his father Sergio. With them were also Father Salvatore and Father Martin, a missionary in Bolivia. The command did not said a word. The loot is yet to be quantified.
forgiveness. "The Friars Minor of Piedmont in prayer to God for entrusting the lives of fellow victims of the aggression to the Shrine of Belmonte and for having the courage to forgive the perpetrators of such barbarity." This was stated in a note to the Provincial Curia of the Friars Minor to which those four Franciscans brutally attacked last night. "Although in recent times has been robbed several times - the statement - the community of Friars Minor from 1600 that are at the service of the sanctuary had never been attacked physically. "For this reason, the Curia, the religious order speaks of" confusion between investigators and rescuers in front of the massacre consumatasi in a few hours within the walls of the convent. "irreparable A shame for Italy, because the news has also come abroad! There is also criticism on the foreign newspapers. On the newspapers we were depicted as "those who do not respect the others!" We must be careful what happens! Otherwise Italians will pay dire consequences!
JOHN Take it