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The Italian who killed one person and injured five others, including the Spanish Monza player Pablo Marí, on Thursday in a shopping center in Assago, on the outskirts of Milan (northern Italy), assured that he felt “envy”, seeing “all those happy people”, the prosecutor who is handling the case and who has ordered his internment as a precautionary measure.
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The individual, identified as Andrea Tomboliniwho was being treated for mental problems, has been charged with the murder of the Bolivian cashier at the Carrefour supermarket where the events occurred and with attempted multiple homicide for stabbing five other people who were at the mall at the time, reported the local media.
According to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, there is a “real danger” that Tombolini, 46, who is currently hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of the Milanese San Paolo hospital, “commits other serious crimes of the same type” for the who was arrested last night.
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The aggressor was arrested thanks to the intervention of former soccer player Massimo Tarantino, who played for Bologna, Inter and Naples, who managed to immobilize him until the arrival of the police
“In a shopping center you have to spend a moment of leisure, not find terror and fear of death. My deepest condolences to all those injured and, above all, my condolences to the relatives of the victim of Assago’s crazy act. A hug to Pablo Mari’ from ‘my’ Monza”, Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wrote on his social networks.
The owner of the club and president of the conservative Forza Italia party, a member of the right-wing coalition that won the elections on September 25, added that “the security of citizens must be a value and the key to human civilization. To do this, the State and local authorities must use all the means at their disposal to guarantee it.”
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The president of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, went this Friday to the different Milanese hospitals where the injured are admitted to inquire about their health, while the CEO of Monza, Adriano Galliani, visited Marí in the center of Niguarda where he is hospitalized and where he underwent surgery this morning.
“The team is shocked, we have asked the League to postpone the match against Bologna on Monday”, Galliani told the media upon leaving the center, where he went with the wife of the 29-year-old Spanish defender.
Marí underwent surgery to reduce the muscle damage caused after being stabbed in the back and will be able to return to training in two months, according to the latest medical report.
Galliani assured that, according to the doctors, Marí’s physique prevented the stabbing from reaching the lung and causing greater consequences for the Spanish defender trained in Mallorca: “If I didn’t have the muscles of an athlete, the knife probably would have sunk in”said
The attack occurred around 6:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. GMT) on Thursday, when Tombolini He grabbed a knife from the shelves of a Carrefour supermarket located inside the shopping center and began stabbing those present, including the player who was with his wife and son.
The Carrefour chain expressed in a note “its utmost closeness to the employees and customers involved in the attack and their families” and confirmed that the police were immediately called and that the attacker was arrested.
Source: Elcomercio
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