After seven years in prison, Luca Traini, the 35-year-old from Tolentino who on February 3, 2018, wounded six migrants of African origin with gunshots on the streets of Macerata while driving a black Alfa 147, has been released and placed under social services : Traini acted in reaction to the murder of Pamela Mastropietro, the 18-year-old Roman girl killed and dismembered on January 30 of that same year by a Nigerian drug dealer.
The 35-year-old had been sentenced to 12 years for massacre with the aggravating circumstance of racial hatred. The Surveillance Court, as Cronache Maceratesi anticipates, accepted the request for release presented by his lawyer, Sergio Del Medico : the basis of the decision was the recognition, by the judges, of the fact that Traini had undergone a process of "critical review" of his conduct, understanding its gravity and the pain caused.
For about two years, the 35-year-old, who attended several courses in prison and also participated in a poetry competition, was able to dedicate himself to work with a farm near the Barcaglione prison in Ancona, with reduced custody, where he worked as a sheep herder . Traini, in short, is no longer the person who spread panic in the streets of Macerata, shooting nine people with a Glock 17 and wounding six, before tying the Italian flag around his neck in front of the monument to the Fallen in Macerata and being arrested. The release was notified today around 1:00 p.m.: he will return to live in Tolentino, has already found a job and would like to compensate the victims of the crime.
«Everything, even the worst crimes, must be resolved in a court of law and never by following other paths that would open the way to a do-it-yourself justice that does not belong, nor should belong, to a state of law», comments the lawyer Marco Valerio Verni, legal representative of the mother and relatives of Pamela Mastropietro. «We believe - adds the lawyer - that if the Surveillance Court accepted the request for probation to social services advanced by the defense, all the requirements for doing so would exist». «Traini, for his part - says Verni - has stated that he is no longer "that person" and, therefore, ». The criminal lawyer adds that «one can criticize the judicial world, when necessary and when the conditions are met, but one must always have respect and trust in it. Despite what happened to us, which has even been defined as unique in the history of world criminology of the last fifty years, this is what we do and this is what we have done."
