Woman Wounded in Largo La Foppa, Attacker: 'Sad Life, Better in Prison'

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The incident dates back to last August 12th. The woman only survived due to the intervention of some passersby.

To arrive in Italy 8 years ago, he paid “€15,000 and €7,000 for the residence permit”, after having studied law to become a lawyer in his own country. He then worked as an “underpaid laborer for €3 per hour” in some textile factories in the Naples area, a condition that left him “sad and desperate”, without friends, and “ashamed because of it”. He now says he is “better off in prison” compared to his previous life. This is how the psychiatric evaluation, ordered by the preliminary investigation judge (GIP) Guido Salvini, recounts the story of the 31-year-old Bangladeshi man who, last August 12th, attacked and wounded a 64-year-old woman in various parts of her body with a shard of broken glass in Largo La Foppa in Milan. The woman only survived due to the intervention of some passersby.

The evaluation, signed by psychiatrist Mario Mantero, as previously reported, confirmed the man’s incapacity to understand and intend his actions at the time of the facts. He was defended by lawyer Andrea Aloi, who utilized the technical consultant and psychiatrist Marco Frongillo. The evaluation, through interviews with the 31-year-old in prison, reconstructs the life of the Bangladeshi man, who should have been transferred to a Rems (Residential Facility for the Execution of Security Measures) but, due to lack of space, remains at San Vittore prison for the time being.

Now, a fast-track trial (giudizio abbreviato) must be scheduled for him, and if the “brief psychotic disorder” confirmed in the evaluation is recognized by the preliminary hearings judge (GUP), he will be acquitted. If social dangerousness, which was highlighted in the evaluation but contested by the defense, is confirmed, a security measure will be applied in a Rems.


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