Macerata (Marche), 10/02/2018. Today, tens of thousands of people (30,000 for the organisers, 10,000 for the police forces) marched peacefully in Macerata – and in several other cities across Italy – to protest and fight against a revival of neo-fascist sentiment (with the ongoing electoral campaign for the 4th of March Italian General Election mainly based on the so-called "Migrant Crisis"), against racism, to show support and solidarity with the 6 African migrants...
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Macerata (Marche), 10/02/2018. Today, tens of thousands of people (30,000 for the organisers, 10,000 for the police forces) marched peacefully in Macerata – and in several other cities across Italy – to protest and fight against a revival of neo-fascist sentiment (with the ongoing electoral campaign for the 4th of March Italian General Election mainly based on the so-called "Migrant Crisis"), against racism, to show support and solidarity with the 6 African migrants wounded - Mahamadou Toure, Jennifer Otioto, Gideon Azeke, Wilson Kofi, Festus Omagbon, Omar Fadera – on the 3rd February 2018 by the far-right gunman Luca Traini. Initially, the protest was banned by the Mayor of Macerata supported by the Secretary of State (Ministro degli Interni) Marco Minniti due to risk of "disorders and clashes", but at the end protesters and institutions agreed to go ahead with the march set up on the road which surrounds Macerata's city centre. From an online article of "the Guardian" (
http://bit.ly/2nXgR8I): <<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. […] 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 […]>>.
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