“We heard the sound of the car passing by, then the gunshots, and we dispersed. When we came back, we saw Alessandro (Parini) lying on the ground, bloody. We had just arrived in town and were going to go to the other one. Half of the party was at a restaurant in Jaffa”. This is the story of one of the Italians who was part of the group involved in the alleged attack in Tel Aviv on Friday evening.
An attack took the life of Alessandro Parini, a 35-year-old Roman lawyer. He is a simple and introverted boy. This is how the 35-year-old’s family described him to AdnKronos after he left the apartment in Monteverde, where he lived alone. “Alessandro’s goals – his mother and father say – only he knew because that’s how he was. He’s always humble”. Alessandro Parini’s colleague and administrative lawyer, Margherita Scalise, remembers him as “the good boy it’s impossible not to love.” “He had many friends and always had a lot to say on a professional and human level,” Alessandro says.
In the attack, which took place shortly after 21:30 on the Tel Aviv coast, many people were injured, including two Italians, whose condition was not serious. The injured Parini and the Italian tourists were part of two different groups. The Roman prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into the incident. The counter-terrorism magistrates, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Michele Prestipino, have received a preliminary report from Digos and Ros and are continuing the proceedings regarding terrorist attacks, murder and wounding.
Reconstruction of facts and doubts about dynamics
But what really happened in Tel Aviv last night? There are still some points to be clarified regarding the dynamics of the facts. According to the Haaretz newspaper, at 9:35 pm, according to the police restructuring, it all started when a car traveling on the road adjacent to the Tel Aviv beach turned right onto the bike path “at full speed”. The vehicle could then pass over pedestrians and cyclists before tipping over on the lawn of Charles Clore Park. Hareetz reported that at this point a police officer and a city guard arrived on the scene: they were going to shoot and kill the man when they saw him trying to pick up an object like a rifle.
However, a police source would reveal that the alleged attacker had a toy gun, not a gun, in his car, as the main Israeli media reported in the hours after the attack. It is better to point out the rumors that appeared in the press, which the authorities did not confirm. It is therefore unclear whether the gunshots heard by the witness were fired by the police or by the attacker himself.
Even the identity of the author is uncertain. The investigation focused on a 44-year-old man who, according to Israeli media, is not affiliated with any terrorist organisation. During the night, police and Shin Bet searched the suspect’s home and questioned some of his family members. Many were later taken to the barracks for questioning.
A relative of the man always told Haaretz, “You can’t believe he did something like that, it’s unthinkable for a very calm and respectful person to do it. We are in complete shock and would have stopped it if we knew his intentions beforehand, he never showed any signs of radicalism and has no ideological background.” In any case, the attack was claimed by Islamic jihad as “a natural and legitimate response to the occupiers’ crimes against the Palestinian people.”
Who was Alessandro Parini?
Parini was 35 years old and a lawyer. She had just arrived in Tel Aviv for a holiday with her friends on Friday. Born in 1987 in Rome, he graduated with honors from Luiss ‘Guido Carli’ University in 2011. From the moment he became a lawyer, he began collaborating with the international law firm Clifford Chance.
In 2019, he received his doctorate in public law from the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. He has been active in both litigation and out-of-court assistance, dealing with administrative and regulatory law, particularly public contracts, competition and electronic communications law.

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