Luca Traini, a rightist accused
of shooting and wounding six African migrants in Macerata on
Saturday, was remanded in custody on Tuesday.
Traini, 28, was remanded on charges of "massacre aggravated
by racial hatred".
The prosecutors had put forward the charge of multiple
attempted murder, but the judge turned that down, deeming it to
have been included in the first charge.
Traini said he shot the six in a drive-by spree on Saturday
morning in revenge for the murder and dismemberment nearby of an
18-year-old Roman woman, Pamela Mastropietro, who had left a
drug rehab centre and whose remains were found in two suitcases.
A Nigerian alleged drug pusher is being held in the case.
Traini exercised his right to remain silent before the
preliminary investigations judge Tuesday but was said to have
proffered spontaneous remarks to a prosecutor, reiterating that
he regretted having hit a woman, the only female among the six
he shot.
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