Macerata Migrant Shooter Luca Traini Released from Jail

Macerata: Luca Traini, a rightwing militant who shot and wounded six African migrants in a drive-by ‘revenge’ shooting in Macerata in 2018, has been released from jail, sources said on Tuesday.

According to Ansa News Agency, the 35-year-old said he went on the drive-by rampage in ‘revenge’ for the rape, murder, and dismemberment days before of 18-year-old Roman woman Pamela Mastropietro outside Macerata in Marche by a Nigerian drug pusher. Traini’s targets had nothing to do with Mastropietro’s murder.

He was given a 12-year jail term. A court has allowed him to do what remains of his sentence by doing community work on the grounds that Traini has understood the gravity of what he did and the pain caused. He has found a job and wants to compensate his victims, sources said.

The lawyer representing Mastropietro’s family, Marco Valerio Verni, said on their behalf that if a court had granted Traini’s request for parole “all the requirements were met”. Verni added that everything, even the worst of crimes, must be settled in a court of law, never by following other paths that would open the way to a do-it-yourself justice that does not belong, nor should belong, to the rule of law.