Arsenal defender Pablo Mari mentioned he’s fortunate to be alive after being stabbed in a deadly grocery store assault in Milan.
Mari, who’s on a season-long mortgage at Italian membership Monza, is now recovering in hospital after he escaped critical damage when he was stabbed within the again.
Local reviews claiming certainly one of 5 victims – mentioned to be an worker of the Carrefour grocery store – has died.
Mari had been procuring along with his spouse and son – who was in a trolley – when he felt a ache in his again earlier than seeing the attacker, later recognized as a 46-year-old man and arrested by police, stab one other particular person within the throat. Local reviews say any terrorist motive for the assault has been dominated out.
Quoted within the Gazzetta dello Sport, Mari mentioned: “Today I was lucky, because I saw a person die in front of me.”
In a press release on Friday, Monza mentioned Mari had undergone surgical procedure and the defender is predicted to be sidelined for 2 months.
“The specialists of the General Surgery-Trauma Team of the Niguarda Hospital in Milan carried out this morning the surgery to reconstruct the two injured muscles on Pablo Marí’s back,” the workforce mentioned.
“The surgery went well and a hospital stay of two or three days is expected.”
Monza president Adriano Galliani, who visited Mari together with the Serie A facet’s head coach Raffaele Palladino, instructed Gazzetta on Thursday: “Pablo is an amazing guy. He had the strength to joke and tell me that he will be back in training on Monday. I brought him greetings from (club president Silvio) Berlusconi and everyone else. His team-mates wanted to come here but obviously it was not possible.”
Speaking additional concerning the assault, Galliani added: “It is shocking news. My thoughts are with the families – what happened today seems impossible for a city like Milan. It can’t be possible that someone gets up in the morning to go to work and then loses their life because of the actions of a criminal.”
Mari joined Arsenal from Brazilian facet Flamengo in January 2020 and performed 19 occasions for the Gunners earlier than heading to Italy on mortgage in August.
In a press release issued shortly after their 2-0 Europa League defeat at PSV Eindhoven on Thursday night time, Arsenal gave an replace on Mari’s situation.
“We are all shocked to hear the dreadful news about the stabbing in Italy, which has put a number of people in hospital including our on-loan centre-back Pablo Mari,” it learn.
“We have been in contact with Pablo’s agent who has told us he’s in hospital and is not seriously hurt. Our thoughts are with Pablo and the other victims of this dreadful incident.”
Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta, in his post-match press convention, added: “I just found out. I know (technical director) Edu has been in touch with his relatives. He’s in hospital but he seems to be OK.”
Monza have additionally requested for Monday’s match in opposition to Bologna to be postponed following the assault.
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk