MILAN — The Carabinieri commander in the Italian city of Macerata says the extreme right-wing suspect in drive-by shootings targeting African migrants was “lucid and determined, aware of what he had done.”
Col. Michele Roberti tells Sky TG24 on Sunday that the suspect, Luca Traini, has demonstrated no remorse for the two-hour shooting spree Saturday that wounded five men and one woman, all African migrants.
A picture showing a man identified as Luca Traini, who is accused of having shot several people in Macerata, Italy, on February 3, 2018. (ANSA/AP)
Roberti says “it’s likely that he carried out this crazy gesture as a sort of retaliation, a sort of vendetta” after a Nigerian man was arrested in the gruesome slaying of an Italian teenager a few days previously in the same city.
He says investigators had determined there was no connection between 28-year-old Traini and the slain victim, Pamela Mastropietro.
Traini has been jailed as police investigate a shooting rampage motivated by racial hatred.
— AP
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