Two Italian women, an aunt and
her niece from Bergamo, were slightly injured in last night's
axe attack at a Duesseldorf train station, the Italian consul in
Cologne, Emilio Lolli, said Friday.
"This morning I went to the hospital in Duesseldorf, to visit
the victim I had heard about overnight, but she had already been
discharged," Lolli went on.
"It was the governor of the Land, who called me personally,
who clarified that there were two people involved and not one as
I had previously learned from the police".
Lolli told ANSA later he had received a phone call from North
Rhein-Westphalia Land Minister-President Hannelore Kraft who
"expressed her regret for what happed to our compatriots.
"She also said the Land is ready to offer psychological
support to the two Lombard women," Lolli said.
"It seems to me an important gestire of attention in light of
the problems that took place in the case of the Berlin attack,"
he said, referring to a Christmas market attack by an Islamist
terrorist that left 12 people dead, after which the family of
Italian victim Fabrizia Di Lorenzo criticised how the German
police had handled the emergency.
Earlier Duesseldorf police chief Norbert Wessler told a press
conference Italian tourists were involved in the axe-wielding
attack by a Yugoslav-born 36-year-old man with mental problems
who wounded nine people including two women, four seriously.
The man was reported to be a paranoid schizophrenic, who
acted alone.
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