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Italy: failed Northern League candidate held over migrant shootings
LBN thread: Driver opens fire on African migrants in Italian city of Macerata
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Source: The Guardian and agencies
Italy: failed Northern League candidate held over migrant shootings
Far-right election candidate arrested in city of Macerata after shooting spree targeting Africans
Damien Gayle and agencies
Sat 3 Feb 2018 16.41 GMT
A failed election candidate for Italy’s far-right Northern League has been arrested after a gunman targeted African migrants in a two-hour drive-by shooting spree in the Italian city of Macerata.
Luca Traini, 28, was arrested after six people were shot in the small city near Italy’s east coast, 200km (125 miles) east of Rome. Police said the attack appeared to be racially motivated.
A video posted by the newspaper Il Resto di Carlino showed armed officers arresting a man with an Italian flag draped over his shoulders in the city centre, near where he apparently fled his car on foot.
“He drove around in his car and when he saw any coloured people he shot them,” Marcello Mancini, a Macerata resident, told Reuters. Romano Carancini, the city’s mayor, confirmed that six foreign nationals, all of them black, had been wounded in the shooting spree. One had life-threatening injuries, he said.
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Far-right election candidate arrested in city of Macerata after shooting spree targeting Africans
Damien Gayle and agencies
Sat 3 Feb 2018 16.41 GMT
A failed election candidate for Italy’s far-right Northern League has been arrested after a gunman targeted African migrants in a two-hour drive-by shooting spree in the Italian city of Macerata.
Luca Traini, 28, was arrested after six people were shot in the small city near Italy’s east coast, 200km (125 miles) east of Rome. Police said the attack appeared to be racially motivated.
A video posted by the newspaper Il Resto di Carlino showed armed officers arresting a man with an Italian flag draped over his shoulders in the city centre, near where he apparently fled his car on foot.
“He drove around in his car and when he saw any coloured people he shot them,” Marcello Mancini, a Macerata resident, told Reuters. Romano Carancini, the city’s mayor, confirmed that six foreign nationals, all of them black, had been wounded in the shooting spree. One had life-threatening injuries, he said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/03/driver-opens-fire-african-migrants-italian-city-macerata
