‘Racial Hatred’ Cited After African Immigrants Are Shot in Italy
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‘Racial Hatred’ Cited After African Immigrants Are Shot in Italy
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Uno dei feriti è stato sottoposto ad intervento chirurgico pic.twitter.com/xx2AcZwI2w "The only element
that links the persons who were injured is the color of their skin," Interior Minister Marco Minniti said during a news conference on Saturday night, calling the shootings an "evident display of racial hatred." Around midday on Saturday, the suspect drove through the streets of Macerata, firing from the Alfa Romeo, officials said.
3, 2018
ROME — A gunman apparently targeting African immigrants from his car went on a drive-by shooting rampage in the central Italian
city of Macerata on Saturday, wounding at least six people, one seriously, before he was arrested, officials said.
A reporter for the ANSA news agency who witnessed the arrest said
that Mr. Traini had the Italian flag draped on his shoulders when he got out of a black Alfa Romeo near the city’s war dead memorial, climbed the stairs of the monument and raised his arm in a fascist salute.
On Saturday, officials told reporters there was no indication that Mr. Traini and Ms. Mastropietro had known each other.
" he said, adding that the racial hatred that followed "filled people with fear." Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters after the shooting
that the government would deal "severely" with anyone trying to stoke racist actions. that Pamela’s death upset and struck a chord in the city,
Italian media reports said that the suspect in the shootings on Saturday had been a
League candidate in municipal elections last year in the nearby town of Corridonia.
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Uno dei feriti è stato sottoposto ad intervento chirurgico pic.twitter.com/xx2AcZwI2w "The only element
that links the persons who were injured is the color of their skin," Interior Minister Marco Minniti said during a news conference on Saturday night, calling the shootings an "evident display of racial hatred." Around midday on Saturday, the suspect drove through the streets of Macerata, firing from the Alfa Romeo, officials said.
3, 2018
ROME — A gunman apparently targeting African immigrants from his car went on a drive-by shooting rampage in the central Italian
city of Macerata on Saturday, wounding at least six people, one seriously, before he was arrested, officials said.
A reporter for the ANSA news agency who witnessed the arrest said
that Mr. Traini had the Italian flag draped on his shoulders when he got out of a black Alfa Romeo near the city’s war dead memorial, climbed the stairs of the monument and raised his arm in a fascist salute.
On Saturday, officials told reporters there was no indication that Mr. Traini and Ms. Mastropietro had known each other.
" he said, adding that the racial hatred that followed "filled people with fear." Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters after the shooting
that the government would deal "severely" with anyone trying to stoke racist actions. that Pamela’s death upset and struck a chord in the city,
Italian media reports said that the suspect in the shootings on Saturday had been a
League candidate in municipal elections last year in the nearby town of Corridonia.