Overview
- Students gathered outside Sant’Andrea Hospital and walked in silence to the Cathedral of Christ the King carrying white roses, photos and white balloons.
- Coptic clergy led the cortege and a Coptic priest co-officiated the service with Archbishop Luigi Ernesto Palletti, before burial at the Cimitero dei Boschetti.
- Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini declared a day of civic mourning to coincide with the funeral.
- The school council ruled that absences from January 20 to 23 would not be counted for those not ready to return, and many students stayed away from classes.
- Arcola’s mayor, Monica Paganini, also proclaimed mourning as reporting identifies the suspect, classmate Zouhair Atif, as a confessed assailant whose family lives in her town.