A 25-year-old Pakistani man allegedly shouted at the victim about children in Gaza before striking him in the head.
Police in Milan arrested a Pakistani man on Monday for allegedly assaulting a Jewish tourist from the United States.
Train conductors subdued the 25-year-old suspect at Milan’s central railway station after the attack. Police then arrested him on charges of aggravated assault motivated by racial, ethnic and religious discrimination, Italy’s RAI news agency reported.
According to the Il Giorno daily, the victim belonged to a group of 10 tourists, all of them Orthodox Jews from the United States. The victim was consulting a departures board when the suspect began accosting him over how “children are killed in Gaza.” The assailant then allegedly chased the victim, hitting him in the head before being subdued.