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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni meets victims of Modena car incident

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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni meets victims of Modena car incident
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On Saturday a 31-year-old Italian man of Moroccan heritage hit several people before crashing into a shop window, colliding with a woman

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella, right, leave Baggiovara hospital after privately visiting people wounded when a car drove into pedestrians in Modena, Italy on Sunday. Photo: Reuters
Agence France-PressePublished: 5:03am, 18 May 2026

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday visited people wounded by a driver with a history of mental health problems who ran over several pedestrians in northern city of Modena.

Hundreds gathered in the evening at the call of the city’s mayor to “unite against those who want to divide and sow hatred” after some far-right politicians tried to tie the incident to immigration.

The driver, a 31-year-old Italian man of Moroccan heritage, hit several people in central Modena before crashing into a shop window, colliding head-on with a woman.Advertisement

“For the moment, what is become most clear, is that this personal situation is of a psychiatric nature,” Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said on Sunday, after a meeting officials at Modena city hall.

“I’m not trying to minimise it,” he added. “There are sometimes situations in which the reasons overlap, that someone acts for terrorism or for outer reasons. Let the investigators do their work.

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“The city should be reassured from this point of view, in the sense that this is a dramatic, tragic, isolated episode,” he said.

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