Vincenzo Lanni , 59, the man who yesterday morning stabbed Anna Laura Valsecchi, the 43-year-old Finlombarda employee still hospitalized with a reserved prognosis at the Niguarda hospital in Milan, in Piazza Gae Aulenti, was undergoing a reintegration program in a community that had recently expelled him for bad conduct.
The woman, stabbed in the chest with a 30-centimetre-long kitchen knife, suffered a perforated spleen and lung and underwent two hours of surgery .
Lanni, identified and arrested for attempted murder after a ten-hour search , thanks in part to surveillance footage, was essentially free, with no particular statute of limitations . And it is precisely this last point that has been under scrutiny in recent hours : the man, originally from Bergamo, had already been arrested in 2015 for stabbing two pensioners in the street in Villa di Serio and Alzano.
Today, before the prosecutor, the confession was made "lucidly." Lanni, according to what was explained, was "pushed to premeditate the attack in a place symbolic of economic power," he told the prosecutor, "namely, next to the Unicredit building." Regarding the woman, the Carabinieri further explain, he specified that he didn't know her and that he attacked her purely by chance, intending to use her to strike "the context in which she found herself due to her resentment over being fired 10 years earlier from a computer programming company where she worked."
With no criminal record and undergoing treatment for psychiatric problems, in 2015 he explained to the magistrate that he had attempted to kill the two pensioners in the Bergamo area as a reaction to the profound state of frustration he felt with his life , which he judged to be a failure. He had been declared partially incompetent and sentenced in 2016 to eight years in prison, plus another three to be served in a psychiatric facility.
(Unioneonline/vl)