Terror, late yesterday evening in Rimini, after a 26-year-old man of Somali origin stabbed four people and a child. The baby is reportedly in serious condition due to a neck injury. It happened on bus line 11 during a normal ticket check by the controllers. The man pulled out the knife hitting the inspectors, one of them wounded in the neck and the other in the arm and then ran away. Once abroad, holding a knife, he tried to stop cars on the street, but without success. Chased by the police on the run, he stabbed three other people, including a woman and her 5-year-old son. Then, finally the man was stopped by the police in Rimini. The baby is in very serious condition and is hospitalized at the Bufalini hospital in Cesena.
The arrest was ordered by the prosecutor Davide Ercolani, who is coordinating the investigations. At the moment, no leads are excluded regarding the motive for the attacks. The investigators are trying to understand the contours in which the whole affair has matured.
At the moment no elements have emerged that could lead him to terrorist or extremist circles. The Somali did not have specific precedents and was housed in a Red Cross facility and according to some witnesses had manifested a violent and aggressive personality. Investigators, also on the basis of the man’s reaction, do not rule out that he was under the influence of drugs. Also according to what is learned, the Somali had arrived in Europe for some years and had been in other countries before arriving in Italy. A few months ago he applied for refugee status.