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A jeweler shot two of the alleged perpetrators in a robbery on his shop in northern Italy.
A third accomplice was able to escape injured, as the Italian news agency Ansa wrote.
A man who went to hospital that night with a gunshot wound was interrogated as a suspect by Carabinieri on Thursday, it said.
The attempted theft of jewelry occurred according to media reports on Wednesday in the small town of Grinzane Cavour in Piedmont.
According to Ansa, a robbery had already been perpetrated on the jewelry store in 2015.
At that time, the business owner was tied up and injured.
His family was also affected at the time.
The perpetrators were caught months later with their prey.
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According to a report in the newspaper "Corriere della Sera", the jeweler is said to have used his own weapon in the renewed attack.
He was in a different part of the business and came after calls for help from his wife and daughter.
He fired several shots.
Two alleged perpetrators were fatally injured.
Ansa wrote that a man was lying in the middle of the street.
The investigators would still have to clarify the exact processes.
The head of the right-wing Lega, Matteo Salvini, already wrote on Facebook that this was a case of "defense" in self-defense.