(ANSA) – MILAN, NOV 10 – Police arrested this afternoon at Milan Central Station a 25-year-old Pakistani man with a criminal record for aggravated assault based on racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination. The man attacked a group of Jewish American citizens waiting to board a train near Platform 8.
The Pakistani man violently attacked one of the men and began kicking and punching him, eventually hitting him in the head with a blunt object—the ring he was wearing. Railway police officers stopped him and arrested him.
Some passengers present attempted to intervene to protect the man. Called by those present, a security officer from FS Security reported the incident to the Railway Police Operations Center. Railway police patrols, nearby, immediately intervened and detained the attacker. From surveillance cameras, the officers verified that the man, upon seeing the group intent on checking train schedules on the departure board, first began shouting at them, then violently punched and kicked the victim, injuring his head. The injured man was taken to Fatebenefratelli Hospital but is not in serious condition. The arrested Pakistani, who had just arrived in Milan on a train, has been arrested. (ANSA).
