Stop in Macerata

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Location of the attack

In an attack in Macerata on February 3, 2018, the Italian right-wing extremist Luca Traini targeted black people from his moving car . He injured five men and a woman from Mali , Ghana , Nigeria and Gambia, some seriously, and one victim was life-threatening. All of the injured survived. The Italian government and the public prosecutor assume a racially motivated murder attack.

Sequence of events

On the morning of February 3, 2018, Traini drove through the center of the central Italian city ​​of Macerata with 42,000 inhabitants and fired a pistol at dark-skinned people. He injured five men and one woman. One of the men suffered life-threatening chest injuries. In addition, the local premises of the ruling social democratic Partito Democratico in Italy were hit.

The gunshots caused a panic . Mayor Romano Carancini imposed a curfew . After the shooting, according to eyewitnesses, the perpetrator showed a fascist greeting wrapped in an Italian flag in front of a war memorial in the city and shouted “Viva Italia!”. When he was arrested, he shouted, according to the AGI news agency : "Italy for the Italians".

Perpetrator

In the center of Macerata, the police arrested the 28-year-old Luca Traini as a suspect. The officers found a pistol in his car. The detainee reportedly confessed to the crime. Traini was a candidate for the Lega Nord in the 2017 municipal elections. According to Interior Minister Marco Minniti, the suspect has a " right-wing extremist background with clear references to neo-fascism and neo-Nazism ". When Traini was arrested, he had a tattoo on his forehead in the form of a wolf's angel , which was a typical symbol of the neo-fascist organization Terza Posizione , which was dissolved in 1982 . When the perpetrator's house was searched , Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf , a Mussolini biography and other right-wing extremist literature were found. The perpetrator's computer was also confiscated .

Reactions and background

During a visit to the city, the Social Democratic Interior Minister Marco Minniti stated that the attack was racially motivated. The only connection between the victims is their skin color . His party colleague, Italy's head of government Paolo Gentiloni , warned against instrumentalizing the attack in the election campaign and called for cohesion.

Lega Nord chairman Matteo Salvini said whoever shoots is a criminal, but "the moral responsibility for every episode of violence that happens in Italy rests with those who have filled [the country] with illegal immigrants". The former head of government Silvio Berlusconi , allied with the Lega Nord, called the act that of a mentally disturbed person. You have "no clear political reference". Among other things, he described migrants as a “social bomb”.

The top candidate of the left-wing electoral alliance Liberi e Uguali , Pietro Grasso , accused Salvini of political instrumentalization. Salvini is jointly responsible for a spiral of hatred and violence. Even Luigi Di Maio from the populist Five Star Movement said: ". Let's be still and not run a campaign at the expense of the murdered girl and injured today," A few days before the assassination in Macerata was a 18-year-old woman cruelly was killed. Her body parts were found in two suitcases. The main suspect is a Nigerian immigrant who has been in custody since then. Mayor Carancini said: "The proximity of the two events makes one think that there is a connection." Italian media also reported on the suspicion that the attack was a reaction to the murder . But there is apparently no direct connection between the alleged assassin and the woman who was killed.

A new parliament was elected in Italy on March 4, 2018 . Xenophobia was a key issue in the election campaign, especially for the Lega Nord , which, among other things, linked the murder of the young woman to immigration from Africa. The right-wing alliance made up of Berlusconi's Forza Italia , the Lega Nord and the Fratelli d'Italia came out on top with around 35%. Silvio Berlusconi announced that 600,000 to 630,000 refugees without a reason for asylum would be brought back to their homeland if his party should win the election.

Processes

In May 2018, the trial against the perpetrator began in a jury court in Macerata. On October 4, 2018, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the first instance . On October 2, 2019, the court of appeal in Ancona upheld the conviction.

Individual evidence

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  13. ↑ Roberto Saviano Why do the Macerata attacks strengthen the extremes in the Italian election campaign? , Interview: Ulrich Ladurner , Die Zeit, February 7, 2018
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  15. ↑ Oliver Meiler: 12 years imprisonment. Süddeutsche Zeitung from October 4, 2018
  16. ↑ Luca Traini, confermata la condanna a 12 anni, il legale delle parti civili: "Risultato importante". Corriere della Sera, October 2, 2019
  17. ↑ Per Traini confermata in appello condanna a 12 anni. Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata of October 2, 2019