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Wave of Support for Italian Fascist Shooter Who Targeted Immigrants

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02/08/18
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Luca Traini made a fascist salute and shouted 'Viva Italia.' Photo: AFP

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Italian far-right sympathiser Luca Traini, who was accused of shooting six African migrants in a racist attack, has received a wave of support from “ordinary people,” according to his lawyer’s statement on Wednesday.

Mr. Traini, who shot five men and one woman from Ghana, Mali and Nigeria in the central city of Macerata last Saturday, said the “trigger” was the murder of an Italian woman allegedly by a Nigerian asylum seeker.

Luca Traini reportedly got out of his car, made a fascist salute and shouted "Viva Italia" after the drive-by shooting in Macerata https://t.co/0aH6k13LsB pic.twitter.com/8jK4jai12D

— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 4, 2018

Mr. Traini’s views have earned him numerous messages of support, his lawyer Giancarlo Giulianelli said.

“These messages of solidarity continue to arrive, from all parts of the political spectrum — often from ordinary people and also from left-wing friends from Macerata and also obviously from right-wing people with the same ideology as Luca,” Mr. Giulianelli said.

The lawyer noted that the messages mostly come from “regular people who want to write letters or send money.”

“There are people who say ‘let me know your IBAN [bank details] so I can send money,’ but my client, although he thanks everyone for the messages, doesn’t intend to have any financial support because he wants it…to be sent to help Italian families in difficulty,” Mr. Giulianelli added.

Mr. Traini, a 28-year-old security agent, calmly awaited police draped in an Italian flag after the shootings in a country where immigration is a hot-button issue a month ahead of elections.

Mr. Giulianelli said his client snapped a day after a Nigerian asylum-seeker and drug dealer was arrested in the same town for the murder of an 18-year-old woman, whose dismembered body was discovered in suitcases.

“He went to the gym but then immediately changed his mind because he had this profound hatred inside of him. He lost it, that’s what he said. ‘I lost it and I wanted to kill black drug dealers.’ That was his version,” the lawyer explained.

“Leave aside the politics — Luca was a marginalised person with problems related to his life that exploded with this act. The act obviously had a racial element so it highlights Luca’s political ideology. But it was the act of a person who really isn’t very well,” Mr. Giulianelli argued. “Luca is not a fascist criminal, he is a boy who needs help.”

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