Suspect who 'stabbed' celebrity chef's son 'doesn't remember' as teen fights for life
Suspect who 'stabbed' celebrity chef's son 'doesn't remember' as teen fights for life
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A 15-year-old suspect claims he “doesn’t remember” knifing the son of a celebrity chef who is fighting for his life in hospital. The horrific stabbing was caught on CCTV where the teen ran towards the victim brandishing a large knife and shouting. He is then seen repeatedly knifing the boy and as the first attacker turns to flee, a second teen kicks the helpless boy on the ground.
Mattia Ahmet Minguzzi, 14, whose dad is former US ambassadorial chef Andrea Minguzzi, is in a hospital intensive care unit with knife wounds to his heart, lungs and kidney. He was stabbed as he shopped with friends, looking for skateboarding gear, in Istanbul's Kadikoy market in Turkey last Friday.
Police have arrested two suspects, aged 15 and and 16, who allegedly carried out the attack which took place at around 8.30am. Mattia is understood to have gone to the flea market with friends and got into an argument with the two suspects. The two groups reportedly met again later and it was then that the stabbing allegedly happened with shopkeepers intervening to stop it. The 15-year-old, who has been named only by his initials B.B. stabbed Mattia who fell to the ground and then the 16-year-old U.B. kicked him on the floor.
And now in a statement B.B., reported Haberler.com, said of the initial argument: "While I was walking in the market, one of the three people I didn't know pointed at my glasses and said, 'What’s on your head, you brat, your mouth smells like milk'. I replied, 'Mind your own business, I don’t want to fight’.”.
