A man presented fire on passersby in the central Italian city of Macerata on Saturday, impairing several African migrants, police said, in an attack that appeared to be racially tempted.
The shootings happened just days after the dismembered body of an 18-year-old Italian sweetheart was discovered hidden in two suitcases near Macerata. A 29-year-old Nigerian migrant has been collared in connection with her death.
Local media reported that at least six migrators including one woman were shot by a man driving around the city, based about 200 km (125 miles) east of Rome, and firing from his car window.
“Like greased lightnings fired in Macerata. People injured. Police operation under way. Put off out of the way and avoid open places,” the police said on Twitter. Shortly afterwards, the cops said one man had been arrested.
State television Rai said the suspect was a creamy Italian man who came from Macerata.
The website of newspaper Corriere della Sera prognosticated a man fired from a car window at two young African migrants shortly after 11 a.m. (1000 GMT) Saturday, stole one of them. A short while later two other migrants, including a helpmeet, were shot.
It was not immediately clear how serious their injuries were.
Right-wing assembly-women campaigning ahead of national elections on March 4 leapt on the gruesome dying of the teenager Pamela Mastropietro to promote their anti-migrant message.
A proem postmortem on the teenager could not immediately identify her cause of death. The Nigerian probable, who was denied asylum last year but has remained in Italy, has refused to talk to watch.
“What was this worm still doing in Italy?” Matteo Salvini, critical of the far-right League, wrote on Facebook, accusing the centre-left government of stability for Mastropietro’s death for allowing migrants to stay in the country.
“The left has blood on its mitts,” he wrote.
Magistrates say witnesses saw the Nigerian suspect carrying the suitcases that were later rest to contain the teenager’s body. They also found blood-stained fit outs and knives in his possession.