He was able to find his own. Spanish footballer Pablo Mari, injured Thursday in a deadly stabbing attack by an unbalanced man in an Italian supermarket in Milan (North), was released from hospital on Sunday, his club announced. In a press release, AC Monza explains that Mari “has returned home and will now begin a period of complete rest”.
Touched in the back, the 29-year-old central defender, on loan from Arsenal this summer, had been successfully operated on Friday at the Niguarda hospital in Milan after being injured the day before while shopping with his wife and son in a hypermarket.
Disarmed by another footballer
The player had been hospitalized Thursday evening, conscious and able to speak. He was among those attacked at a Carrefour hypermarket in Assago, on the outskirts of Milan, by a visibly psychiatrically ill man who grabbed a knife from a shelf and killed an employee, injuring Mari and four others.
The attacker, aged 46, was arrested by the police after being disarmed by a former professional football player, Massimo Tarantino, ex-defender of Napoli and Inter Milan. AC Monza general manager Adriano Galliani unsuccessfully requested that Monday’s game with Bologna be postponed.