Italian PM cancels Cyprus visit after Modena car attack

[Reuters]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s authoritative visit to Cyprus, scheduled for Sunday, has been postponed pursuing a superior incidental successful the bluish Italian metropolis of Modena connected Saturday that near 8 radical injured, authorities spokesperson of the Republic of Cyprus Konstantinos Letymbiotis said.

Two of the injured, who were struck by a vehicle driven into pedestrians successful the city’s center, underwent surgery for the removal of their little limbs. A 55-year-old woman remains successful captious information aft being trapped betwixt the vehicle and a store window. Two different victims, aged 52 and 69, are reported to beryllium successful superior condition.

Meloni is present expected to visit Modena connected Sunday, alongside Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella, who has thanked citizens who helped assistance successful the apprehension of the suspect, identified arsenic 31-year-old Italian nationalist of Moroccan root Salim El Koudri.

According to authorities, the suspect drove a αυτοκίνητο into a assemblage of pedestrians successful Modena and subsequently stabbed a passerby who attempted to intervene, injuring a total of 8 radical earlier being arrested by Italian police.

Modena Mayor Massimo Mezzetti said the city’s intelligence wellness services had recorded indications of schizoid property upset exhibited by the suspect betwixt '22 and 2024. He added that “everything seems to constituent towards an idiosyncratic act, beyond the limits of reason.”

The 31-year-old suspect has been charged with “committing massacre” under provisions of Italian transgression law.