Five people were injured this Thursday in Assago, on the outskirts of Milan. A man stabbed them in a supermarket in that Lombard town. Among the victims of the attack is Pablo Marí Villar, a Spanish footballer who is playing for Monza this season on loan from Arsenal. According to the latest update, one of the victims has died and two people are seriously injured.
The attack occurred in the afternoon, when a man, who was later identified as Italian, aged 45, grabbed a knife from the shelves of the Carrefour supermarket inside a shopping center and began stabbing people, injuring To five.
At first, it was reported that among the injured there were four men aged 28, 30, 40 and 80, three of them seriously injured. The 30-year-old, a supermarket cashier, was the one with the greatest severity and had to be evacuated by helicopter, where he ended up dying from several stab wounds to the chest and abdomen.
According to the Italian media, one of the victims is Pablo Marí Villar, a Spanish defender on loan this season to Monza, owned by Silvio Berlusconi. On her part, a woman reported an injury to her hand that did not require hospitalization and another 81-year-old woman was also treated.
According to the journalist Álvaro von Richetti, the soccer player is being treated at the Niguarda hospital, north of Milan. The information assures that the player is well, is conscious and has received visits, among them those of the general director Adriano Galliani and the coach Raffaele Palladino.
Pablo Marí became known when he was proclaimed champion of the Copa Libertadores with Flamengo in 2019. His good performance at the Brazilian club allowed the Valencian central defender to sign for Arsenal a year later, where he has had little weight. With Monza he has started in all the games he has been available for (8) and has scored a goal.
Also according to the latest update, the aggressor had mental problems and was undergoing treatment for severe depression. He was detained by police moments after causing a panic at the mall.
The Carrefour chain, to which the hypermarket belongs, expressed in a note “its maximum closeness to the employees and customers involved in the attack and their families” and confirmed that the police were immediately called and that the attacker was arrested. The company also immediately activated “a psychological support service for all employees directly or indirectly involved in the incident.”
