Macerata shooting

On 3 February 2018, in the city of Macerata, Marche, 28-year-old local Luca Traini, driving a black Alfa Romeo 147 and armed with a 9mm Glock 17 Gen 3 semi-automatic pistol seriously wounded, in a drive-by shooting, six African migrants. Traini also targeted the local headquarters of the ruling Italian Democratic Party. After the attack, Traini had an Italian flag draped on his shoulders and raised his arm in a fascist salute. The attack received widespread media coverage and affected Italian politics as it occurred during the political campaign for the 2018 Italian general election.

Traini said the attack was revenge for the murder of Pamela Mastropietro, an 18-year-old local girl whose dismembered body had been found a few days earlier, stuffed into two suitcases and dumped in the countryside. For this, Innocent Oseghale, a 29-year-old Nigerian national and failed asylum seeker, had been arrested and charged.