Nick Pellegrino, a Staten Island native, was attacked by North African migrants in Milan while on vacation. The assailants stabbed him in the neck with a knife, causing serious injuries. Pellegrino described the attackers as terrifying and likened them to the 9/11 hijackers. He lost a significant amount of blood during the incident, which was part of a violent trend associated with loose immigration laws in Italy. Emergency services were alerted by a bystander after he managed to reach the train platform.
"With these very loose, lefty immigration laws, these immigrants come into these countries and they're running amok, trying to murder people. It's a playground for terror, for the vicious," said Pellegrino, 29, speaking by phone from his hospital bed in the town of San Donato Milanese.
"It's f-king crazy," he said. "I know America has a big immigration problem, but it is worse here."
"They looked like the 9/11 hijackers," Pellegrino said. "I remember looking at the floor in the train and just seeing the blade of the knife, and the most frightening amount of blood I have ever seen."
Pellegrino was later told by EMTs he lost about a liter-and-a-half of blood, said Pellegrino, who now teaches religion and coaches track at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco.
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