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Yes, okay, Salim El Koudri did drive his car into a crowd in Modena, Italy, last Saturday, maiming a couple of people for life (they both had to have their legs amputated) and injuring five others. But these are the days of compassion, the days when we know that the perpetrator of a crime has to be understood as articulating a grievance that we all must rush to assuage, and the era of empathy, when we don’t care nearly as much for amputated legs as we do for hurt feelings, if the legs are not attached to the right person...

Shortly after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Modena, Italy, four Italian civilians stepped in and tackled the vehicle's driver, pulling him to the ground, according to the city's mayor. "The madman, I don't know what to call him, the criminal who committed this act, he got out of the car brandishing a knife," Mayor Massimo Mezzetti told state-owned news agency RAI. "Four citizens, whom I thank, captured him and handed him over to law enforcement." Mezzetti said that eight people were wounded when the car rammed into a crowd on Via Emilia, a busy street in...

At least eight people were injured Saturday in Modena, Italy when a crazed driver rammed his car into a crowd at full speed — and then knifed a hero who stopped him when he tried to flee following his cowardly act. The man has been identified by authorities as Salim el Koudri, a 31-year-old Italian citizen of Moroccan origin. The motive is not yet known, but a terrorist attack is not being ruled out, Italian newspaper La Pressa reported.

The traditional Italian observation -- Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it isn't true, it makes a good story) -- reflects a good deal of human history.One such colorful event was the 14th-century War of the Bucket between the Italian cities of Bologna and Modena. The story is that after years of tension, a group of Modenese entered Bologna and stole the bucket from the town well.The Bolognese demanded its return, but the ruler of Modena refused, and war ensued, culminating in the Modenese victory at the Battle of Zappolino in 1325...After the collapse of the Western...

Brescello, the ancient municipium of Brixellum, is a small town in northern Italy near Modena. Originally, it was a Gallic settlement on banks of the Po River that was romanized after the area was annexed by the Roman republic...It was in this city that in the year 1714 one of the most remarkable numismatic discoveries ever recorded took place. A peasant, while ploughing a field, accidentally found a vessel containing about 80,000 republican aurei, that is, approximately 650kg of pure gold!The treasure was composed entirely of only 32 varieties of types coined between the years 46 and 38 BC, so...

More evidence Covid was tinkered with in a lab? Now scientists find virus contains tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna THREE YEARS before pandemic began Genetic match discovered in Covid's unique furin cleavage site on spike protein Matched genetic sequence patented by Moderna for cancer research purposes Researchers say one in 3 trillion chance Covid developed the code naturally Fresh suspicion Covid may have been tinkered with in a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus's spike protein. They identified a tiny snippet of code that is identical to...

The COVID-19 vaccine story is currently dominated by three drugs: The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA drugs, and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. I recently dissected the dubious science behind the latter two drugs here and here. As my previous articles explained at length, the science supposedly supporting the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca drugs is a bad joke. It is also a matter of record that both Pfizer and AstraZeneca are corporate criminals, having racked up billions in penalties over the last two decades for a host of dishonesty offenses including fraud, bribery and false marketing. The world is now being asked to forgive...

A car exploded outside a synagogue in the northern Italian city of Modena at 4 AM local time Thursday, killing the driver. Army Radio reported that the Foreign Ministry said the incident was not a terror attack. Police said the dead man was of Jordanian origin. The Italian news agency ANSA initially said he was of Palestinian origin, but then said he was born in Jordan and had Kuwaiti citizenship. The prefect of Modena, Italia Fortunati, said all indications pointed to a "desperate" act by a man known to public-service agencies in Modena as having "serious problems," including alcohol abuse,...

Dec. 11, 2003 Car explodes outside an Italian synagogue, driver killed Casale Monferrato synagogue in Modena A car exploding outside a synagogue in the north Italian city of Modena at 4 AM local time Thursday, killing the driver. According to Italian news services, the driver, a Jordanian citizen, set himself on fire. Two policemen guarding the synagogue spotted the car in flames and attempted to put out the blaze, but moved away just before it blew up. The car was reportedly a liquid propane propelled Peugeot. No other casualties were reported. Buildings in the immediate area were moderately damaged. Investigators...

A car exploded near a synagogue in the northern Italian city of Modena when the man inside set himself on fire, police said. Police said it appeared the incident may have been a suicide, but authorities were still investigating. "The man had shown uneasiness and problems relating to people in the past," a policeman in Modena said. "We think we're dealing with a suicide." The man, who was from Jordan, set himself on fire. When police approached to put out the flames, the car, which ran on flammable liquid propane gas, exploded, police said. No other injuries were reported, although...

ROME (Reuters) - A car exploded near a synagogue in the northern Italian city of Modena early Thursday morning and the man inside the car died in an apparent suicide, police said. Police said it appeared the incident was a suicide and not necessarily a terrorist attack but authorities were still investigating. The man, who was apparently from the Middle East, set himself on fire. When police approached to put out the flames, the car, which ran on flammable liquid propane gas, exploded, police in Modena told Reuters. Various reports from Modena said the man was either Jordanian or Palestinian....