The former Italian international player Roberto Baggio and his family were kidnapped on Thursday for 40 minutes during the Italy-Spain Euro 2024 match, when a group of violent thieves broke into their villa and locked them in a room, according to Italian media.
Baggio57, was injured when he was hit by the tip of a gun in the forehead during a robbery at his home in Altavilla Vicentina (Vicenza, north), he revealed this Friday “Il Corriere della sera.”
The robbery began around 10:00 pm local time, when the Ballon d’Or and his family were watching the Italy-Spain match on television and a group of at least five people, all of them armed, entered the house
Baggio confronted them and after a brief fight with one, the assailant hit him in the face with the tip of his gun causing a deep wound, and then locked the former player and his family in a room.
Meanwhile, the thieves ransacked all the rooms and stole watches, jewelry and money, with the total value of the theft not yet known, according to the same sources.
When the footballer realized that the thieves had left, he broke down the door of the room, where they spent about 40 minutes, and called the carabineros (militarized police), who immediately arrived at the villa and took the images recorded by surveillance cameras.
Baggio and his family was taken to the hospital, where the former player received several stitches in the wound on his forehead, while the rest of his family members did not receive injuries, only fear due to the violence of the robbers.
Source: La Verdad
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