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December 05, 2021Candles and flowers, tears and silence, a

night of condolence at Columbia University

to remember Davide Giri, the Piedmontese researcher stabbed to death while returning home from a football match on Manhattan's Upper West Side.



"He was a serene, quiet, intelligent, diligent and gifted boy", remembers Don Franco, the parish priest who married his parents and baptized him thirty years ago. "Davide was much more than what the newspapers wrote - remember his parents Renato and Giuseppina, who today received a visit from the bishop of Alba, Monsignor Marco Brunetti -. He volunteered and truly honored the fourth commandment, honors his father and mother, and had a great sense of family. " Heartbroken, the New York Post defines "devastated" even his girlfriend Ana, with whom in a few months, at the end of his doctorate, he would go to live. 



"We had a long history and dreamed of our life together early next year," the young woman told the US newspaper. who describes David as "a kind and loving person".

It all vanished under the blows to the abdomen on the corner of 123rd Street West and Amsterdam Avenue

. The perpetrator of the act was 25-year-old Vincent Pinkney, on probation after a long list of crimes. A member of a Queens gang, the man was arrested in Central Park after having wounded another Italian, the 27-year-old Perugian student Roberto Malaspina, in the back and side, hospitalized at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital and now released from intensive care. .



"I was outside a club with a friend. We went out, it was eleven. We were returning home.

This stranger surprised me and hit me in the back

.

Five, six shots.

I defended myself with my feet, kicked ", is the story told by Roberto Malaspina in the 'Big Apple' for a scholarship from Columbia University. He was attacked the same night in which, not far away, Giri, 30 years old, was killed engineer from Alba.



Columbia rector Lee Bollinger described the death of Davide Giri as "sad and shocking", among the many boys present there are those who remember

the death of Tessa Majors

, a student of Barnard College, stabbed to death two years ago during a robbery in the same park.A similar episode, according to the first rumors, considering that the hypothesis of the robbery ended in tragedy is put forward.