Ferrara, the plan of the 22-year-old who stabbed a student: he wanted to attack other high schools

In the phone of the 22-year-old who broke into the Ariosto high school in Ferrara on Wednesday and stabbed a fifteen-year-old in the school bathrooms, a note emerged with the plan of a violence that in his intentions should have been much more widespread: there are several people that the young man wanted to stab also at the Roiti high school, also in Ferrara, and at the one in Bondeno. Qn-Il Resto del Carlino reports it.

The young man did not have a direct connection with Ariosto, and suffers from a psychological fragility that developed during the Covid period. On his mobile phone it was found written: "Liceo Bondeno, I'm going in at break. I'm going to lock myself in the bathroom downstairs. I'll start by hitting... one in the bathroom. I go to class and hit a person six times between the chest, abdomen, neck, I move on to another six times. I leave the class, 2 people 6 times. Then I move to the class above. Always two per class 6 times". And then: "Roiti goes to the bathroom until someone arrives who I hit 10 times - writes the 22 year old -. Then I move on to my former classroom in the hall and then the one next door. In each one I hit two people six times. Then I'm done".

According to his plan, everything should have ended up in an abandoned farmhouse where he would have taken his own life. In reality, however, after injuring the high school student and fleeing in his car, the attacker was apparently convinced by his mother to desist from his intentions.

According to what he himself reported once he was arrested, the 22-year-old had been followed by psychiatric services for some time given that for years he had been manifesting aggressive fantasies which were inspired by the massacre that occurred in 1999 in Columbine high school in the United States, in which two students killed 12 peers and a teacher. Returning to the case of Ferrara, the judge validated the arrest "considering the evident danger of the accused". The boy's lawyer asked for less afflictive sentences including moving from prison to a healthcare facility.