Accused of Attempted Murder in Milan: 'I'm Better Off in Prison Than in Naples'

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The 31-year-old Bangladeshi man — accused of attempted murder for wounding an unknown 65-year-old woman with broken glass — had worked for years in a textile factory in the Naples area, from 7 am to 8 pm, for €3 per hour.

A “sad” man, with few friends, “underpaid”, who “lives better in prison compared to the condition he was in Naples”, where he worked in textile factories for a wage of “€3 per hour”. This is the description, akin to a modern ‘slave’, that emerges from the psychiatric evaluation of the 31-year-old Bangladeshi man arrested for attempted murder last August 12th in Milan after wounding an unknown 65-year-old woman in the throat with broken glass in Largo La Foppa.

The consultancy reconstructs the life of the man who arrived in Italy in 2012. He left Bangladesh and university, which he attended “with good grades” — dreaming of becoming a lawyer — according to the report signed by the judge’s expert, Mario Mantero, and shared by the defense consultant, Marco Frongillo. The 31-year-old moved to the Naples area, specifically San Giuseppe Vesuviano, “where he worked in a textile factory, from 7 am to 8 pm, for a wage of €3 per hour, living with fellow countrymen, from 4 to 8 in the same room, which explains his inability to speak and understand Italian”. He is learning the language in prison. The 31-year-old, who never received psychiatric treatment in the past—and who committed the act while passing through Milan — was determined to have been suffering from an “acute brief psychotic disorder” at the time of the event, which “totally excluded his capacity to understand and intend his actions”, leading to a finding of “high social dangerousness”. The man’s defense lawyer, Andrea Aloi, yesterday requested a fast-track trial and that the man be entrusted to a facility alternative to prison. The news was reported by AdnKronos.


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