A man opened fire on passersby in the central Italian city of Macerata on Saturday, injuring six African migrants in an attack that officials say appear to be racially motivated.
The shootings happened just days after the body of Pamela Mastropietro, 18, was discovered hidden in two suitcases near Macerata. Nigerian migrant Innocent Oseghale, 29, has been arrested in connection with her death.
The six migrants were shot by a man firing from his car window beginning shortly after 11 a.m. local time Saturday as he drove around the city, located about 200 kilometres east of Rome.
"Shots fired in Macerata. People injured. Police operation under way. Stay out of the way and avoid open places," the police said on Twitter. Shortly afterwards, police said one man had been arrested.
Italy's interior minister says the suspected gunman was immersed in "racial hatred" and had an extreme-right background with both neo-Nazi and neo-fascist ties. Marco Minniti told reporters in Macerata that the suspect had acted alone Saturday but planned the attack in advance.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni condemned the drive-by shooting spree, saying "hatred and violence will not succeed in dividing us."
Gentiloni said that "one thing is certain, that horrendous crimes and criminal behaviour will be prosecuted and punished. This is the law.
Fucker was a literal skin head from his picture, and reportedly delivered a fascist salute when arrested. Not much ambiguity here as to motive.
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Well at least they caught him and will throw the book at him.
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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As I noted in the OP, I only quoted the first part of the article (don't like quoting really long articles in the OP). The rest is in the link.
The guy is described as active in a far-Right anti-immigrant party, IIRC, and had previously run unsuccessfully for local office.
"I know its easy to be defeatist here because nothing has seemingly reigned Trump in so far. But I will say this: every asshole succeeds until finally, they don't. Again, 18 months before he resigned, Nixon had a sky-high approval rating of 67%. Harvey Weinstein was winning Oscars until one day, he definitely wasn't."-John Oliver
"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan."-General Von Clauswitz, describing my opinion of Bernie or Busters and third partiers in a nutshell.
I SUPPORT A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE.
Fair enough, I didn't read the whole article, though I would still contend the tightly is misleading. I mean, he doesn't appear to be an actively working politician or even a career politician, just someone who once ran for office. Unless that was as a candidate for a mainstream party, it doesn't really seem fitting to call him a politician.
Sadly, Lega Nord is a mainstream party in Italian politics.
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