On Saturday (September 11), a Somali migrant went on a stabbing spree in the Italian town of Rimini, stabbing 5 people including a 6-year-old child after being confronted by two female trolley conductors who asked him to show a ticket. The below article from Giornale di Rimini is translated by Fousesquawk. (Illustrations also added by Fousesquawk.)
Rimini: Stabber on bus, the "trigger" was the check and the sanction
September 13, 2021
Tomorrow morning, the 26-year-old Somali who unleashed panic on Saturday at Rimini will be interrogated late due to a delay in finding an interpreter. First, on board a trolley bus, stabbing two female conductors who asked him to show a ticket. And then fleeing on the street and wounding three other people, among them, a 6-year-old child, originally from Bangladesh, gravely (but) now out of danger.
From what has been obtained thus far from the investigators, Rimini prosecutor Elisabetta Melotti explained to the press this afternoon, police chief Francesco De Cicco at her side, "Based on previous behavior in reference to various information from the police, as to the results of the search and subsequent behavior, no elements of any kind have emerged".
What is certain is that the man from 2015, traveling around Europe, requesting asylum in 5 different nations, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Switzerland, arriving then in Italy 9 August, was in possession of 5 knives, three of which were kitchen knives found on the bus, and a pair of scissors, while the initial toxicological and alcohol tests in his urine have given no results.
Now the results of blood tests are being awaited. The attacker, moreover, during a psychiatric (interview), has declared that he has "a persecution experience " behind him, while on the morning of the episode, he had gone to the police headquarters to report an attack (he) suffered in the building in which he was a guest of the Red Cross of Riccione. "Verifications at this time seem negative". In short, "Some dynamics of the behavior remain to be reconstructed in detail and also the type of wounds," argues the prosecutor, to try and also understand, "the reasons for his behavior".
There are no other (criminal) complaints or charges pending against him, only the report, points out the chief of police, of aggressive behavior at the time of his (covid) swab test last 10 September after quarantine. "While the swab test was being done, he reacted in an agitated manner," he says, adding that, "From today, he would have been placed in one of the centers to begin the procedure of internationalization of his presence (in Italy)". As he had asked 5 other countries, except that he then failed to show up again at the (asylum offices).
The "trigger", underlines De Cicco, Saturday on board #11, were the checks and the (fine). The man attacked the two women and stabbed them, causing a prognosis of 10-60 days respectively (recovery). Then he fled, followed by police with "a series of violent behaviors"; trying to steal a car with threats to the owner; a light wound to a young woman "with no apparent motive", throwing rocks and threatening police.
Then another slight injury to a woman and the most serious episode of the child, the circumstances of which are still under investigation, after which, he got rid of the scissors and knife. The charged crimes are attempted homicide, resisting (arrest), and attempted robbery, with aggravating factors, the reactions to the (ticket) check and wounding of a child, "striking randomly without motivation".
"I am being extremely cautious," Melotti stresses. "It is a phase in which a whole series of things is being evaluated," beginning with the possible previous persecution. "At the moment," she concludes, "we cannot give an indication of possible premeditation, considering also the modality of the behavior," and the police chief adds, "The triggering cause of the check-(fine), which has reassured us as to the matrix of the act."
Chief of police Di Cicco stressed: "Thanks to the collaboration of the citizens, we were able able to follow step by step the trail of the absconder." And as to the dramatic moments of that Saturday, Elisabetta Melotti recalled: "You can imagine on 11 September a foreign citizen who attacks two conductors opens a scenario, not just fantasy, but also as to reasonableness, even apocalyptic."
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