Most Americans are unaware of how violent Italian history is. This reprisal for the brutal murder of a young Italian woman may in time be seen as the first metaphorical ringing of the bells:
The extreme right-wing suspect in a shooting rampage that wounded six African migrants in Italy has demonstrated no remorse for his actions and was “lucid and determined, aware of what he had done,” an Italian law enforcement official said Sunday.
Luca Traini, 28, was being held in jail as police investigate him on multiple counts of attempted murder for Saturday’s shooting rampage in the central Italian city of Macerata, with the aggravating circumstance of “racial hatred.”
Traini was an unsuccessful candidate last year in a local election for the anti-migrant Northern League party and friends have been quoted by ANSA as saying he previously had ties with the neo-fascist Forza Nuova and the CasaPound political parties.
Col. Michele Roberti, the Carabineri commander in Macerata, told Sky TG24 that “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.
The dismembered remains of Pamela Mastropietro, 18, were found in two suitcases days after she walked away from a drug rehab community. Police arrested the Nigerian suspect after finding the victim’s bloody clothes in his apartment, along with a receipt from a pharmacy where she had bought a syringe and knives that are consistent with the crime.
While the Italian government is every bit as immigrant-crazed as Angela Merkel’s lunatic German government, it lacks any credibility at all and is currently teetering on the edge of collapse and replacement by anything and everything from an independent Venice to Matteo Salvini’s Lega Nord and the anarchic Movimento Cinque Stelle.
It seems that the main thing keeping the ethnic violence at a relatively low level is that the criminal organizations have been profiting greatly from the human trafficking and sex trafficking that is part and parcel of the third-world migration. But once the capos decide that living in an Italy that remains Italian is more important to them than short-term profits, I suspect we will see an abrupt change in policy that will astonish the world.
But Salvini would be far and away the best and most civilized option. He’s smart, dedicated, and committed to Italy for Italians. The status quo is no longer viable.
Italy is heading into a general election on March 4 and the head of the rebranded League party, Matteo Salvini, had capitalized on the teen’s killing in campaign appearances even before the shooting Saturday. Salvini is pledging to deport 150,000 migrants in his first year in office if his party wins control of parliament — drawing sharp rebukes that he is using the migrant crisis to foment xenophobia for political gain.