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One of Traini’s victims, a 29-year-old woman identified only as Jennifer, told the daily La Stampa from her hospital bed that she no longer feels free to walk around the city “with peace of mind” after the attack. Traini, who had an Italian flag wrapped around his neck when he was detained, has run in local elections as a candidate of the right-wing League party, according to the center-left Democratic party, which is currently in power. After the assault in the central town of Macerata, the suspect got out of his car and made a fascist salute with a tricolour Italian flag draped over his shoulders, Italian media reported. A Nigerian man was charged Thursday with the brutal killing of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro, who was found chopped up and placed in two different suitcases near Macerata. Founded with secession from Italy in mind, the Northern League has since taken up a harshly anti-immigration platform, with Northern League federal secretary and party head Matteo Salvini promising to triple deportations and overhaul border security if the party is elected in Italy’s forthcoming general election, scheduled for March 4.
A shooting in Macerata, Italy, leaves six African immigrants wounded. The suspect is arrested and the case is being treated as a racially motivated crime.