American Stabbed in Neck by Migrants in Milan Amid Italy Migrant Crisis

Nick Pellegrino, a Staten Island-born Catholic school coach now living in San Francisco, was violently attacked while vacationing in Milan, Italy, when two North African migrants stabbed him in the neck with a 5-inch blade, stealing his luggage and gold crucifix. Pellegrino lost approximately a liter and a half of blood, narrowly escaping death after staggering off the train and being helped by a teenager who called for emergency assistance that took 15 minutes to arrive. The attackers had previously assaulted an elderly man with a glass bottle and robbed a woman, highlighting the growing migrant-related crime concerns amid Italy's national emergency over over 157,000 migrants arriving by sea in 2023. Pellegrino, deeply shaken, criticized Italy's immigration policies, calling the country a "playground for terror, for the vicious," and expressed that the situation there is worse than the immigration problems in America. The incident underscores the ongoing tensions and political unrest linked to migration from North African and Middle Eastern countries into Italy. Authorities have since arrested the suspects, though their identities remain undisclosed.