Driver opens fire on African migrants in Italian city of Macerata

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian/Reuters

A man has opened fire on pedestrians in the Italian city of Macerata, injuring several African migrants in an attack that police said appeared to be racially motivated.

Local media reported that at least six migrants, five men and a woman, had been shot by a man driving and firing from his car window.

Police told residents to stay out of the way and avoid open places before announcing that a man had been arrested.

The state broadcaster Rai said the suspect was a white Italian man who came from Macerata.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/03/driver-opens-fire-african-migrants-italian-city-macerata

[EL34x4]

1. Expect more of this. Many Italians are overwhelmed and fed up. (n/t)

[kimbutgar]

2. I was in Venice last year and there were quite a few African migrants and I saw some Italian men

Spitting and yellling at them. It was kind of shocking.

[ck4829]

3. I am overwhelmed and fed up... I don't go on temper tantrum shooting sprees.

[EL34x4]

4. Thank you for sharing.

[CreekDog]

6. "Fed up" and "overwhelmed"? Your hood is showing

[EL34x4]

7. Been to Italy recently? I have.

[EL34x4]

8. 5000 mostly African immigrants are arriving weekly to Italy.

Understanding the frustration many Italians feel about this somehow makes me a hood-wearing klansman?

You do realize the progressive Left is losing on immigration, right?

[CreekDog]

9. Yes I have been to Italy recently

If you try to keep explaining why it's reasonable for white people to feel overwhelmed by black people, then you're unwittingly answering the "hood" question, not for yourself, but for folks here.

[CreekDog]

11. you're the one who called Italians racist

saying that a Northern Leaguer was representing popular sentiment.

and now you're losing it and reverting to Republican talking points about the "left" and "unrestrained immigration".

maybe suggesting that more people support Nazi-like candidates is a thing.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1728043

[CreekDog]

13. and your removed post in this thread shows that jurors here think your post was racist too

and i know you can't answer in this thread, that's your fault. you'd have been allowed to answer if you hadn't posted what you posted.

[BeekeeperInVermont]

12. It appears to have been in response to another heinous crime:

From The Guardian:

"The shootings happened days after a Nigerian was arrested in connection with the death of an 18-year-old Italian woman, Pamela Mastropietro, whose dismembered body was discovered hidden in two suitcases near Macerata."

Pretty gruesome.

[Eugene]

5. updated at link: Italy: failed Northern League candidate held over migrant shootings

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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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/03/driver-opens-fire-african-migrants-italian-city-macerata