Stabbing Rimini, Lamorgese: "We have excluded the terrorist trail"

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September 13, 2021 "We have ruled out the terrorist trail. We are certain about this." This was stated by the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese, at the end of the safety committee in which she participated in Rimini after the stab wound, Saturday evening, of five people by a Somali. "While this episode was taking place and we were following it from Rome, the European police were in contact with each other to be sure of this data, of this important element", he explained, defining what happened on Saturday "a very serious criminal episode". 

"Yesterday I expressed my desire to come here to demonstrate the closeness of the institutions and the minister", said Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese speaking with reporters in Rimini, after having participated in the provincial committee on public order and safety in the prefecture. after the stabbings on Saturday, for which a 26-year-old Somali is in prison. "The chief of police is with me: we made a point of situation with the mayor, with whom we also spoke last night to show our closeness to this territory which was really offended by a very serious criminal episode".

"It was an episode that certainly shouldn't have happened, but that could have happened in any part of Italy or Europe, because he was obviously a disturbed person," said the Minister of the Interior.   

"All the necessary investigations are being made from a psychiatric point of view," added Lamorgese. "The positive side is that the victims are no longer in danger of life and this is the most important element". "A criminal episode", Lamorgese remarks, "due to a Somali citizen who had been traveling in Europe for several years, since 2015. He went to Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Germany and ultimately to Switzerland. He regularly proposed the application for international protection ".

"The Somali asylum seeker who stabbed five people, including a child, was reported by the Red Cross to the Prefecture as a dangerous subject. But the government did nothing, as is now the practice in the Lamorgese era. which the Ministry of the Interior is now dedicating is to repress those who dare to ask questions about the management of Covid and to fine those who peacefully contest the Government. What else must happen to replace Minister Lamorgese with someone capable? ". This was declared by the president of Fratelli d'Italia, Giorgia Meloni.