Rome, May 22 (LaPresse) – “I spoke with Salim. He is currently on anti-anxiety medication and sedatives, and it will take some time before he can speak clearly.” This is what Fausto Gianelli, the lawyer for Salim El Koudri—the 31-year-old who drove his car into a crowd in Modena’s historic center last Saturday—told LaPresse. “He told me: ‘I am Italian. My parents, who are foreigners, made sacrifices to send me to school and deserved to be rewarded. That’s why I had to find a job and make something of myself,’” the lawyer reports, “he told me he had sent out many résumés without ever being called back, but he didn’t attribute this to the fact that he might be considered a foreigner.” “He,” Gianelli reiterates, “considers himself fully Italian.” As for the notes in Arabic found by investigators in the 31-year-old’s home, “they probably belong to his parents. He understands Arabic, but he speaks it poorly,” the lawyer concludes.
Modena, El Koudri to his lawyer: “I’m Italian; I had to make something of myself for my parents”
Rome, May 22 (LaPresse) – “I spoke with Salim. He is currently on anti-anxiety medication and sedatives, and it will take some time before he can speak clearly.” This is what Fausto Gianelli, the lawyer for Salim El Koudri—the 31-year-old who drove his car into a crowd in Modena’s historic center last Saturday—told LaPresse. “He told me: ‘I am Italian. My parents, who are foreigners, made sacrifices to send me to school and deserved to be rewarded. That’s why I had to find a job and make something of myself,’” the lawyer reports, “he told me he had sent out many résumés without ever being called back, but he didn’t attribute this to the fact that he might be considered a foreigner.” “He,” Gianelli reiterates, “considers himself fully Italian.” As for the notes in Arabic found by investigators in the 31-year-old’s home, “they probably belong to his parents. He understands Arabic, but he speaks it poorly,” the lawyer concludes.
