“You Christian bastards, you and your Jesus Christ on the cross. I’ll burn him.”

This is one of the emails sent by Salim El Koudri to the University of Modena . The message is dated five years ago, but it's now being brought to the attention of those investigating the incident in Modena, where the 31-year-old man, speeding, mowed down pedestrians on Saturday.

Investigators are trying to reconstruct his personality and understand whether the attack was inspired by the copying of massacres committed in recent years in Europe, particularly those in Nice and Berlin.

The 31-year-old of Moroccan origin was applying for a job at the university where he graduated with a degree in Business Administration. Four emails sent on April 27, 2021, in just over an hour, are being examined. "You need to get me a job as an employee, not a warehouse worker, and here in Modena, not somewhere in the world, where you'll have 500 euros a month in your pocket if you're lucky." Then, a few minutes later: "Let me work." Then the "Christian bastards" reply, and finally the apology: "Sorry for the rudeness."

Salim El Koudri has been an Italian citizen since September 27, 2009, when he was 14. His family arrived in Ravarino in 2000: "He attended primary school in the village, and the teachers," explains Mayor Maurizia Rebecchi, "let us know that he was doing very well; he was a model student . He did the same at secondary school in Bomporto, so he was absolutely a child like all the others." The young man later attended high school in Modena and graduated with a degree in business administration.

"The anti-terrorism system has revealed no flaws," claims Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi . On the subject of repatriations, he contradicts Salvini: "I share his concern for more sustainable immigration management, but we're talking about something else here. We work on repatriations for foreign criminals, but here we're talking about an Italian citizen ."

Piantedosi also underlined how a "very evident" component of the subject is the " psychiatric distress, regardless of anything the investigators may establish" .

The wounded

Meanwhile, the 69-year-old German woman admitted to Baggiovara Hospital in Modena has been extubated and is conscious. She was the last person struck by the car driven by El Koudri, who severed both her legs in the impact, one of the four most seriously injured. The prognosis remains guarded.

The two patients admitted to Bologna's Maggiore Hospital—a 55-year-old Italian couple—are both in intensive care in stable condition. The female patient has multiple injuries; her condition is slightly improving but remains critical and the prognosis is guarded. The male patient, also with multiple injuries, is stable and no longer in immediate danger of dying, but the prognosis is guarded.

The 53-year-old Polish woman, still in serious condition, presents a stable clinical picture, the prognosis remains guarded.

The 59-year-old Italian patient with facial trauma, confirming the prognosis of 30 days in total already communicated yesterday, presents a stable and good clinical condition.

(Unioneonline/L)

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