“I tried to understand him, to understand his decision.” Not “violence … nothing in his life, in his temperament, could make me imagine this leap. It’s what frightens me the most.” Valeria Collina is the mother of Youssef Zaghba, the young man who died in the London Bridge attack of June 3 2017 after having killed eight people together with other two terrorists. She shared her story with SIR. “Where does this force come from? Who are these people? What is this ideology that can radically transform a human being? I am tormented by these questions. Not only with regard to my son, but also in more general terms. What are we dealing with? It appears to be an extremely powerful force”

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