London Bridge killer Youssef Zaghba known as local romeo and had a string of one-night stands, claim pals
Zaghba and two other terrorists killed eight people in a van a knife rampage before being shot dead by police
LONDON Bridge terrorist Youssef Zaghba fancied himself as a playboy and stalked clubs picking up girls to bed.
The 22-year-old was notorious for one-night stands in Bologna, the Italian city where his mum lives.
Friends there revealed how he used to be a romeo.
Zaghba was one of the three fanatics who killed eight people in a van and knife rampage before police shot them dead.
One former friend said: “We’d chat up girls in the main square and pick them up in nightclubs.
“To Youssef they were just flings. He was never that religious growing up.”
Another added: “He’d hit the nightclubs and ask the girls for their telephone numbers.
"They loved him because he was good looking.
“He didn’t drink or smoke. Some of the guys would smoke joints but I never saw him touch one.”
Moroccan-born Zaghba was allowed into the UK despite Italian police having flagged him up as a potential danger after he became radicalised.
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He had been intercepted at Bologna airport trying to head out to join IS in Syria.
The brazen killer even told local cops who stopped him: “I’m going to be a terrorist.”
One friend last saw him in Bologna in January.
He said: “It was a chance meeting in the city centre.
“He invited me over to see him in London. He’d gone to England with 80 euros but got a job straight away in a shoe shop, then in a fast food place.
"He’d called to say in three months he made a load of cash."
“All I know about his life in London was that he lived in a shared house with other Muslim guys.
“If you ask me, they brainwashed him. He was no way a born terrorist.”
Zaghba’s mum Valeria said: “He liked to go out and enjoy himself. He had lots of friends.
“I only hope now he is in paradise. But that is up to Allah, who judges all of us.”
Yesterday the boyfriend of Aussie nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, who was trying to help the wounded when the jihadis killed her, said: “That’s the kind of person she was.”
Heartbroken James Hodder, 30, added: “My whole life has been ripped from under me.”