El Koudri, Dda excludes the terrorist aggravating factor. The victim's lawyer lashes out against the prosecutor

BOLOGNA – Even for the Bologna DDA, as well as for the Modena Prosecutor's Office, there is no aggravated terrorist charge against Salim El Koudri, the 31-year-old perpetrator of the attack on May 16th in the center of Modena following which seven people were injured and one – Monica Esposito – died two months later. Excluding this aggravating circumstance, the file therefore remains the responsibility of the Modena Public Prosecutor's Office. El Koudri is in prison, under investigation for the massacre and awaiting trial.

The exclusion of the terrorist aggravating circumstance was written by the deputy prosecutor Morena Plazzi, who received the documents from the Modena Prosecutor's Office. And it is precisely against Plazzi that the lawyer assisting Giovanni Esposito, the victim's brother, lashes out. Plazzi "from what I read is a magistrate member of the progressive centre-left currents of ANM, Democratic Area for Justice and from 2023 president of the Movement for Justice - art.3 Ets, as well as a signatory for the appeal of the Jurists for Gaza", thunders the lawyer Deborah De Cicco. "I am disheartened by the unfoundedness of the reasons given, but we will not give up and we will always get to the bottom of the search for the truth. The terrorist purpose - reports De Cicco - was excluded in an abnormal way because the action was driven by personal frustration and the intimidating action was not considered to be on a large scale. Furthermore because 'the web searches were passive and occasional and without personal contribution', writes the prosecutor of the DDA. The personal contribution, to the web searches, I would like to report to the Prosecutor, it is to have published the black flag of ISIS and created a time graph on the path of radicalization and more, but above all to have carried out a massacre with one dead and mutilated wounded, let us become aware of it quickly", he concludes.