terrorism

A new terrorist attack, this time in Strasbourg, one of the capitals of political Europe, headquarters of the European Parliament. The Islamic terrorist matrix now seems confirmed. The attacker who opened fire at the Christmas markets, however, in this case does not come from the Middle East but was born in France and is defined as a "hybrid", that is, someone who became radicalized after being involved in common crime. In short, one that mixes common crimes such as robbery, drug dealing, extortion from Islamic radicalism. It is very likely that the radicalization occurred in prison where the man would have been detained several times in the past. In fact, he was already known to the police force, he had been registered as dangerous and had narrowly escaped a search yesterday morning as part of an investigation into an extortion case. The Special he talked about it with the psychiatrist and forensic criminologist Alessandro Meluzzi with which we tried to understand how it is possible to identify and stop these so-called "hybrid" subjects. Read More