A rightwing racist skinhead
group on Thursday claimed responsibility for a series of
overnight attacks on the offices of Caritas Catholic charity and
the ruling center-left Democratic Party in the northern Veneto
region.
Caritas works closely with migrants and refugees, and
Premier Matteo Renzi's PD supports integration and an open-door
policy towards refugees fleeing civil war in Syria and
elsewhere.
The Verona-based National Project - a splinter from the
Veneto Skinhead Front - claimed responsibility for the actions,
which involved putting up red-and-white emergency tape and
drawing the outline of a body on the ground as though the
Caritas and PD offices were murder scenes.
"This was a demonstrative action," the National Project
said.
All the incidents were reported to Carabinieri and Digos
anti-terror police.
"Following the unspeakable actions targeting Caritas due to
your daily work at migrants's side, I urge you to keep up your
commitment towards the old and the new forms of poverty,
fragility, and need," said Caritas Director Monsignor Francesco
Soddu.
Caritas is committed to upholding human values for the
common good, Soddu said.
"Our communities (aim to be) the laboratory for a new
humanism, made not of factions and divisions but of meetings and
relationships," he said.
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