Milan, 17 May (LaPresse) – ‘I realised the risk, the danger I was in, but it was the right thing to do.’ These were the words of Luca Signorelli, the passer-by who was the first to intervene yesterday to stop Salim El Koudri after he had ploughed his car into the crowd in the centre of Modena. Leaving Baggiovara Hospital, where he met with Head of State Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Signorelli recounted what had happened. ‘That scene looked like Beirut, Gaza,’ he said. ‘I saw people turning away because they were afraid, but sometimes you have to respond. In that moment, you don’t think: you act.’ “I showed that Italy isn’t dead and I’d probably do it again,” he added. “After I’d stopped him, we didn’t say much to each other; he was babbling something, speaking Italian, yes, you could hear a foreign accent. I don’t remember what he was saying, though.” “The President of the Republic congratulated me,” he said.