Second generation Italian, but a rabble-rouser inspired by the first. Here he is the creator of movement October 17ththe one that threatened to unleash revolt in all the cities of Italy until the government fell. Here is the one who instigated the demonstrators to make a revolution, with terrorist aims. This is the son of Moroccan immigrants, someone who studied and graduated fromState University of Milan where he also obtained a master’s degree. Youssef Siherthis is his name, is considered the “mind” of the group.
According to investigators, he administered the platform from which calls for “permanent mobilization” were launched in the main regional capitals. And on his Instagram pages they praised themselves looting of Milanconsidered a legitimate proletarian expropriation to allow the redistribution of wealth, but the recipes for chaos were also republished, i.e. a manual of urban resistance, to explain to the participants of the demonstrations, presumably destined to clash with the law enforcement agencieshow not to be identified during checks and how to behave in case of arrest.
Between universities and study centers: the academic profile of the accused
From initial reports, it emerges that Siher was a staunch supporter of Palestinian causewho in the past had also protested to force the university where he studied to stop any collaboration with an Israeli university. But in addition to being a “pro Pal” agit prop, the man accused of unleashing the streets and having relations with antagonistic environments boasted relationships in esteemed research centers and even in some editorial offices.
Yes, the architect of the October 17 movement, after graduating, had come into contact with theInspithe Institute for International Political Studies, of which he had become a researcher at the observatory on Middle East and North Africa.
And in addition to the research offices, Siher collaborated with some newspapers, such as the Daily Fact (but apparently also il Foglio), whose site hosts several of his articles.
The short circuit of integration and the ideological knot
The story of this second generation Italian, for whom his origins were evidently worth more than the rules of the country that saw him grow and allowed him to study, is very indicative. First of all because it makes a clean sweep of the learned arguments used by left-wing politicians and institutional representatives to explain, if not justify, the sacking of Milan. Failure to integrate, youthful malaise and anxieties about the future have nothing to do with it. If anything, it has to do with a fundamentalist vision of the world, married to the Islamic radicalism.
Yes, because the first news that reaches us about Siher paints him as an integrated person and certainly not without relationships and prospects for the future. The information describes him as a thirty-year-old capable of speaking multiple languages, that is, in addition to Arabic and Italian, also French and English.
Apparently, no one had slammed doors in his face because of his origins, but rather he wrote for national newspapers and worked for a well-known institute.
So why did he want to cause chaos? Why did he incite mobilization to bring down the government?
But, in particular, why did he accuse Italy, i.e. the country that had welcomed him, of being a state founded on repression and of having denied the future to young people, so much so that he was determined to take that future for himself, even by force?
The political clash after the devastation
It is clear that discomfort has nothing to do with this case. Just as it is clear that the motivations behind his gestures are belonging to the pro-Pal world, his ties with his antagonists and his strong Islamic extremism, pushed to the point of explicitly rooting for Hamas. What else to say? Everything we predicted is happening: the welcome is backfiring, the plans to destabilize the current political framework are confirmed, and even the danger of certain pro-Palestinian environments.
But if we had a clear picture, the one who continues to confuse it is the left, which, faced with the sacking of the Lombard capital and the threats of other raids, continued for days to talk about high costs of living, precarious economic conditions and lack of integration. If anything, the problem is the opposite: we have integrated some subjects and now we pay dearly for the mistake.
