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A North African suspect named Salim El Khoudri was arrested in Modena after a road camera filmed him purposely swerving into pedestrians. After crushing a woman's legs and injuring several others, the suspect emerged from his vehicle with a knife.
‘We saw the car approaching, it was heading for the curb,' an eyewitness said.
‘It suddenly accelerated - it was going at least 100km/h (62mph).'
‘We saw people flying,' the witness told Italian media.
The video is graphic - I'll start with screenshots for those who don't want to watch the clip.
(Discretion advised.)
The suspect began by hitting multiple people along this street. That none of them died is a miracle:
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He then turned down another street and tried to hit more pedestrians, but most avoided him.
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He finally succeeded in pinning this woman to a wall:
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He then got out of the car, its engine smoking, and attempted to flee while slashing at bystanders he is in the middle of the photo below):
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If you made it through those pics, here is part of the video:
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Back to the BBC:
Modena's Mayor Massimo Mezzetti said it appeared the driver ‘deliberately drove on to the pavement, hitting several people and crashing into a shop window'.
‘He then got out of his car and brandished a knife,' Mezzetti said.
Five women and three men have been injured. One of the women is reported to have lost both of her legs.
Here is the moment several Italian men displayed lethal amounts of toxic masculinity in stopping the mostly peaceful asylum seeker:
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One of the heroic men, Luca Signorelli, was still bleeding when the press arrived.
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No media outlet has hazarded a guess as to why Muslim man Salim from Morocco would run down pedestrians and try to slash the survivors.
I can only assume the motive is too complicated for us little people to know!
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