Woman Wounded in Largo La Foppa, Attacker: 'Better in Prison Than Outside'

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The psychiatrist’s evaluation: the man suffers from an “acute brief psychotic disorder which totally excluded his capacity to understand and intend his actions”.

A “modern slave”, summarizes his lawyer, who worked in a textile factory “for €3 per hour”, so “sad” that he now says he is “better off in prison” than outside. This is how the psychiatric evaluation ordered by the preliminary hearings judge (GUP) Guido Salvini describes the 31-year-old Bangladeshi man arrested last August 12th for wounding a 64-year-old woman in the throat with a broken bottle shard in Largo La Foppa, central Milan. The report signed by psychiatrist Mario Mantero traces the life of the man who arrived in Italy in 2012.

The man, as had already emerged in previous weeks, was determined to have been suffering from an “acute brief psychotic disorder which totally excluded his capacity to understand and intend his actions” at the time of the event, resulting in a finding of “high social dangerousness”. For the 31-year-old, his defense lawyer, Andrea Aloi, requested a fast-track trial (giudizio abbreviato) and that the man be entrusted to a facility alternative to prison. The report, whose contents are known today, reconstructs his life since arriving from Bangladesh, where he had studied at university “with good grades”. He later ended up working in San Giuseppe Vesuviano, where he worked in a factory “from 7 am to 8 pm, for a wage of €3 per hour, living with fellow countrymen”.


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