An American teacher’s Italian holiday turned into a waking nightmare after he was knifed in the throat during a shocking broad-daylight attack on a train in Milan.
Nick Pellegrino, 29, a Staten Island-born Catholic school coach now living in San Francisco, was ambushed by two migrants while traveling through San Giuliano Milanese.
He says he narrowly escaped with his life after losing more than a liter of blood in the horrific attack on Tuesday.
The pair, believed to be North African, stabbed him in the neck with a 5-inch blade, snatched his gold crucifix and luggage, and vanished – leaving Pellegrino slumped in a pool of blood on the platform.
‘With these very loose, lefty immigration laws, these immigrants come into these countries and they’re running amok, trying to murder people,’ he told the New York Post in a phone interview from his hospital bed. ‘It’s a playground for terror, for the vicious.’
‘It’s f**king crazy,’ he added. ‘I know America has a big immigration problem, but it is worse here.’