The body of Alessandro Parini, the 35-year-old Roman who was killed in the attack on the Tel Aviv seafront last Friday, returned to Italy today on a state flight .
His parents, friends who were with him in Israel and the Italian authorities were waiting for him at Rome's Ciampino airport. The funeral is expected to be held between Thursday and Friday.
There are no longer any doubts that it was not an accident: the car that overwhelmed Parini and seven other tourists (including two Italians, one still in hospital in Tel Aviv) was thrown at full speed by the Arab-Israeli Yousef Abu Jaber with the aim of killing. The man - shot dead by two officers - would have acted in a "premeditated manner". “He quickly maneuvered between the concrete blocks (on the sidewalks) to purposely reach the cycle path and hit as many people as possible – Israeli investigators say -. While driving wildly he intentionally accelerated and hit a group of people. He then continued to accelerate and ran over even more people ».
At the end of the first tests on Abu Jaber's body, the doctors of the Institute of Legal Medicine also ruled out that he had suffered a stroke while he was driving the vehicle . As for Parini, the first forensic investigations into the victim's body did not find any shots fired. The 35-year-old was killed by the violent impact with the car.
The Palestinians "celebrated the killing of the Italian citizen Alessandro Parini," Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu denounced on Twitter, enclosing a video with images of celebrations after the attack. "Deplorable and disgusting images that I hope will be condemned by everyone, without exception," commented Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.
Meanwhile, the situation in Israel remains tense and shows no signs of abating. A Palestinian youth was killed in violent clashes with the Israeli army near Jericho in the West Bank. While the Israeli Lea Lucy Dee, mother of the two sisters killed in a Palestinian attack in Hamra , in the Jordan valley in the West Bank, died in hospital from her wounds.
(Unioneonline/D)
