{"id":17468,"date":"2026-05-18T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/17468\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:30:31","slug":"modena-car-ramming-suspect-not-linked-to-terror-groups-italian-minister-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/17468\/","title":{"rendered":"Modena car-ramming suspect not linked to terror groups, Italian minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MILAN, May 18 (Reuters) &#8211; A man who drove a car into a crowd in the northern \u200cItalian city of Modena on Saturday, injuring \u200ceight people, four of them seriously, appears to have no links \u200bto any terrorist groups, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said in a newspaper interview on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Salim El Koudri, a 31-year-old Italian man of Moroccan origin, attempted to \u200cflee and stabbed one \u2060of three people who tried to stop him, before being arrested by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 &#8220;At this \u2060stage, there are no indications of structured Islamist radicalisation and he does not appear to be linked to fundamentalist \u200bpropaganda networks,&#8221; \u200bPiantedosi told daily Il \u200bGiornale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 He added that \u200csearches of El Koudri&#8217;s phone, &#8220;have so far not revealed elements consistent with the typical profile of a terrorist planning violent acts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Attacks using vehicles to drive into crowds have become more common worldwide, but this \u200cwas the first of its \u200bkind in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Piantedosi said El \u200bKoudri, who was \u200bborn and brought up in Italy, had \u200cbeen diagnosed as having &#8220;a schizoid \u200bpersonality disorder&#8221; \u200band had &#8220;expressed resentment and dissatisfaction with his work and social condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Italy&#8217;s far-right League party, part \u200bof Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s \u200cruling coalition, has heightened its anti-immigrant rhetoric since \u200bSaturday&#8217;s incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Gianluca Semeraro, editing by \u200bGavin Jones and Alexandra Hudson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN, May 18 (Reuters) &#8211; A man who drove a car into a crowd in the northern \u200cItalian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,12590,12438,12639,12729],"class_list":["post-17468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-italy","tag-matteo-piantedosi","tag-modena","tag-salim-el-koudri","tag-terrorist-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}