Student stabs 18-year-old classmate to death after argument over a young woman

Rome.- An eighteen-year-old student died last night after being stabbed in front of the classroom by a classmate at a high school in La Spezia, in the Liguria region, in northwestern Italy.

Youssef Abanoub, an Italian of Egyptian parents, was transferred to the emergency room of the Sant'Andrea Hospital after being stabbed and subsequently operated on, but died during the night. The attack occurred in the corridors of the vocational training institute around 11:00 a.m., when the aggressor, an 18-year-old from Morocco who also studied at the institute, after an argument took out a knife brought from home and lunged at him.

Although a teacher later managed to stop and disarm him, he had already stabbed Abanoub, perforating his spleen.

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According to the testimonies collected by the investigators within the school to reconstruct the context of the attack, some of the students spoke of a discussion that had arisen days ago due to jealousy issues over a girl. The newspaper Corriere della Sera explained that during the arrest, the boy confirmed: "I wanted to kill him. He shouldn't have been allowed to publish a photo of him with my girlfriend on social media." It all started in the bathroom during a class change, adds Milan's diary, "there was an exchange of accusations, an argument, and then the aggressor took out the knife and chased the victim who tried to run towards his classroom, but caught up with him and stabbed him right in front of the door. The killer could be charged with premeditation in addition to murder and the testimonies of his classmates are being examined, who claim that it was not the first time that the boy went to school armed with a knife. The Minister of Education, Giuseppe Valditara, deeply regretted the death of the young man "which deeply affects the school community and the entire country" and emphasized "the urgency of recovering the culture of respect, starting with the school".