Macerata Mass-Shooting Spree (Italy)
Channel: Q&A News
Date: 04/02/2018

On the 3rd of February 2018 at approximately 11:00 am local time, A man named Luca Traini; a 28-year-old Italian, whilst draped in an Italian flag has shot at least six dark-skinned foreigners in a drive-by rampage & then finally after performing a 'Roman salute' was arrested in Macerata, Province of Macerata, Italy.

Footage shows the suspect arrest, a survivor's account of the event & aftermath.

According to the Il Resto del Carlino newspaper, the man a 28-year-old local with links to the populist Northern League; fired his first shots around the Via dei Velini area & then proceeded to drive his black Alfa Romeo 147 car around the city centre, targeting immigrants. 
 
All of the victims have been hospitalised, although only one appears to have been seriously injured, with a shot hitting her in the abdomen. Il Resto del Carlino reported that seven people have been injured, but La Repubblica put the number at six. 
 
"The wounded persons are of foreign nationality," police said in a statement. 
 
The paper claims that the shooting began at 11.00am local time & continued for about two hours until the man was seized by police, having abandoning his car near the town's war memorial. 
 
After leaving the car, the man mounted the monument & performed a fascist 'Roman' salute. 
 
The police have released a picture of the shaven-headed man, draped in an Italian flag, as he was taken away. 
 
According to the La Repubblica newspaper  the man, who has been identified, had put himself forward as a candidate for Italy's Northern League in the 2017 municipal elections, & was even pictured in a party manifesto next to the party's mayoral candidate Luigi Baldassarri. He failed to win any support. 
 
According to the newspaper, the man has admitted to both carry out the shootings & to performing a 'Roman salute'. 
 
Local media are linking the attack to the murder of an 18-year-girl whose dismembered body was found in two suitcases last Wednesday. Police are holding a Nigerian man custody over the killing. 
 
The local municipality raised an alert at around 12pm, warning citizens to stay inside until the "dangerous situation" had subsided. 

In this video Northern League leader Matteo Salvini says: “We need a mass cleansing, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, do this the hard way in case of”. #Macerata shooter was a candidate of Northern League last year.
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Source: https://www.thelocal.it/20180203/six-tourists-injured-in-italy-shooting
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