Rightwing skinheads attack Caritas, PD

(ANSA) - Como, November 26 - 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.