Terroristic Attack in Macerata

On 31st January a dismembered body was found in two suitcases in the countryside near Macerata, Italy. The main suspect was Innocent Oseghale, a Nigerian man with no permit to stay in the country and was linked to drug crime.
People were angry, most of them were angry because he was Nigerian. Right-wing parties once again incited hatred among the people, the same ones who victim blamed every woman sexually assaulted and/or killed by White men were now suddenly disgusted by this particular murder only because of the colour of the skin of the suspect.
On the 3rd of February, in the same city, a white man fired on six Black people. And the people, the awful ones, justified this act as a consequence of immigration. Because “Italians are tired”.
Luca Traini was justified by some and called “a killer”, or better “a fascist” by others. Not many mentioned that he is a terrorist, which he is. Most still like to believe that terrorists can only be Muslim, while a White man can only be ‘mentally ill’ or a ‘rotten apple’.
They like to think that evil only comes from outside. That, otherwise, we would live in a fairy tale world.
What happened in Macerata, both the murder of Pamela and the terroristic attack, are awful crimes, none better than the other. But it’s important to understand how they differ. We can’t just put Luca Traini in prison and forget that his was a racial crime. The reactions that followed his attack tells us something important and scary. Fascism is not dead. It does not belong to the past.
We have to address these issues and try to solve them. Educate people on the importance of diversity and compassion, let them understand the stories and the lives of the immigrants. They don’t come here to steal from us, but rather because we stole from them through years and years of colonialism, racism and oppression, we made their countries uninhabitable.
It is important to understand that it is wrong to blame them, we have to detach ourselves from the fascist ideology.
In Italy these facts took place in a crucial moment. On the 4th March Italians will have to vote for the representatives in Parliament. In an environment filled with hatred, many are worried that the right-wing parties might win, ruining the lives of many Italians – including the ones originally from another nationality – but also the lives of many people that started fresh in the country.
For many of us it feels like a second Brexit or seeing Trump win again. We live in constant worry, not knowing what will happen to our beautiful country, which constitution condemns any form of Fascism, but seems like it’s now filled with.