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Monday 5 February 2018

Hitler book, supremacist flag found in Italy suspect’s home

By COLLEEN BARRY his neck. woman.
Associated Press Col. Michele Roberti, the One of the people wound-
MILAN (AP) — A right- Carabineri commander in ed Saturday, a 29-year-old
wing extremist suspected Macerata, told Sky TG24 woman identified only as
in the shooting rampage that Traini demonstrated Jennifer, told Italian daily
that wounded six Africans no remorse for the two- newspaper La Stampa
in central Italy was “lucid hour rampage and “it’s from her hospital bed that
and determined, aware of likely that he carried out she no longer feels free to
what he had done” and this crazy gesture as a sort walk around the city “with
exhibited no remorse for of retaliation, a sort of ven- peace of mind.”
his actions, an Italian law detta” for the gruesome “I never hurt anyone. I was
enforcement official said slaying of a teenager a few talking and laughing with
Sunday. days earlier. three other people” when
Luca Traini, 28, remained A Nigerian man has been she was struck by the bul-
jailed as police investigat- arrested in the death of let, she told the Turin-based
ed him on multiple counts A picture showing a man identified by the Italian Carabinieri, Pamela Mastropietro, 18. newspaper.
of attempted murder with paramilitary police, as Luca Traini, who is accused of having shot Mastropietro’s dismem- One of the six victims was
the aggravating circum- with a firearm to several people in Macerata, Italy, Saturday, bered remains of were treated and released Sat-
stance of “racial hatred” Feb. 3, 2018. found in two suitcases days urday. The remaining pa-
for the Saturday attacks in Associated Press after she walked away from tients were all in stable con-
the Italian city of Macera- Kampf,” other publica- Italy’s ANSA news agency a drug rehab community. dition, with one in intensive
ta. tions linked to Nazism and quoted acquaintances Police said her bloody care and Jennifer facing
The five men and one a flag with a Celtic cross, a saying he previously had clothes, a receipt from surgery on her shoulder,
woman were wounded symbol commonly used by ties with the neo-fascist For- a pharmacy where she doctors said Sunday.
in the two-hour drive-by white supremacists, from za Nuova and CasaPound bought a syringe and Her boyfriend told La Re-
shooting spree were from Traini’s home Sunday. parties. knives consistent with the pubblica they were waiting
Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia Traini, who is Italian, was Photographs released by crime were found in the at a bus station when he
and Mali, according to RAI an unsuccessful candidate police showed Traini with Nigerian suspect’s apart- saw a man pointing some-
state television. last year in a local election a neo-Nazi tattoo promi- ment. Roberti ruled out any thing at them from a black
Italian authorities said they for the anti-migrant North- nently on his forehead and personal connection be- car. He realized then that it
seized Adolf Hitler’s “Mein ern League political party. an Italian flag tied around tween Traini and the slain was a gun.q

Greeks rally in Athens to protest use of the name Macedonia

By ELENA BECATOROS out the city center and trying to show the politi-
Associated Press three major subway stops cians ... that they must not
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — were closed. Chanting give up the name ‘Mace-
Well over 100,000 protest- “Hands off Macedonia!” donia’,” said 55-year-old
ers from across Greece and “Macedonia belongs protester Manos Georgiou.
converged Sunday on Ath- to Greece!” the protesters In Skopje, a spokesman for
ens’ main square to protest converged on Syntagma the Macedonian govern-
a potential Greek com- Square in front of parlia- ment said he didn’t know
promise in a dispute with ment, many waving flags whether his government
neighboring Macedonia bearing the Star of Vergina, would react to the rally.
over the former Yugoslav the emblem of the ancient Macedonian opposition
republic’s official name. Greek kingdom of Mace- leader Hristijan Mickoski
Hundreds of chartered donia. Police officials esti- said in a TV interview that
buses brought protesters in mated the attendance at the rally hurt the prospects
Protesters shout slogans during a rally in Athens, Sunday, Feb. from around the country 140,000. Organizers, who of a deal on the name is-
4, 2018. Protesters from across Greece converged Sunday on to the Greek capital, while claimed 1.5 million were at sue.Greek Prime Minister
Athens’ main square outside parliament to protest a potential more people arrived on the rally, used a crane to Alexis Tsipras was dismissive
Greek compromise in a dispute with neighboring Macedonia ferries from the islands. Traf- raise a massive Greek flag of the event.
over the former Yugoslav republic’s official name. fic was blocked through- over the square. “We are Continued on Page 9
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