The centre-left Democratic Party
(PD) has sounded an alarm over an alleged resurgence of Fascist
sentiment in Italy after a neo-Nazi shot and wounded six
migrants in Macerata in revenge for the murder and dismemberment
of an Italian woman allegedly by a Nigerian drug pusher.
Some extremists have defended the shooter, Luca Traini, who
has become a hero of sorts among far-right groups like Forza
Nuova and CasaPound.
In the mainstream, anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini
and centre-right Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi have
linked the attack to allegedly intolerable levels of illegal
immigration and vowed to deport over 600,000 illegals.
On Wednesday a PD heavyweight, Transport Minister Graziano
Delrio, told left-leaning daily la Repubblica that "those who
justify incidents like the one in Macerata throw open the doors
to a return of Fascism".
CasaPound is set to stage a demonstration against immigrants
in Macerata Wednesday afternoon, although the mayor, Romano
Carancin, has called for a halt to all demos.
Meanwhile another PD heavyweight, Justice Minister Andrea
Orlando, visited the two of the wounded migrants who are still
in hospital.
He also met prosecutors investigating the racist shooting and
the murder of 18-year-old Roman recovering drug addict Pamela
Mastropietro.
The PD will stage a national anti-Fascist rally to warn
against the return of violent xenophobic intolerance after
Macerata, PD deputy leader Maurizio Martina, the farm minister,
said Wednesday.
"We will meet the appeal from the mayor of Macerata not to
have any more demos in his city and we back the idea, proposed
by (national partisans' association) ANPI, for a national
anti-Fascist rally against all forms of intolerance, violence
and xenophobia," Martina said.
He said it would "keep high the attention on dangerous
resurgence that the country must isolate and relaunch the
democratic commitment the Italian Constitution calls us to bear
witness to".
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