As reconstructed by witnesses, a man driving a gray WV Polo stopped in front of a kiosk, was down and entered in the local market. He went towards three illegal vendors from Senegal and has 4 shots fired. Two North Africans have died, the third was rushed in critical condition at the nearby hospital of Careggi. It was a real execution. The killer then returned in his car and escaped. Some witnesses have taken the license plate number and police are hunting him.
The man who killed two Senegalese, two hours later, wounding another two blackmen, in another part of the city, the central market of San Lorenzo, then shot himself in the parking of the market. The man was identified as Gianluca Casseri, far-right militant. He is dead at the hospital. ”The assumption is that he committed suicide when he saw the police he was acting,” said in the afternoon the prosecutor of Florence, Giuseppe Quattrocchi. A group of Senegalese are demonstrating in the streets of the city to stand up for more security in the city.
The killer profile: a loner, extreme right militant
Gianluca Casseri, the man who killed two Senegalese in piazza Dalmazia, and wounded tre people, was a political writer of the extreme right, who loves sci-fi books. Casseri was 50 years. He was born in Pistoia, a little city near Florence and lived in Ciriegio, a village on Appennini mountains, but the last times he had moved to Florence.
The killer had written, among other things, “The Key of Chaos” an historical novel that revolves around the figure of a magician, mathematician and alchemist. Casseri was known as a very introverted, a loner. His book, published by Punto d’incontro, was released in 2010 and was presented in more than one occasion in meetings in Tuscany.
The rage of the Senegalese
The racist double murder sparked the anger of the Senegalese. A group of six hundred participated to a protest march near piazza Duomo. The anger was vented against motorcycles parked in the streets and also against a photographer, which has been broken camera. According to investigators, members of the leftiest social centers have infiltrated the march. <strong>A day of mourning</strong> The President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, has heard “with shock and deep sorrow the tragic news on the episode of violence in Florence with the barbaric murder of two foreign workers.” The head of State “has expressed the general sentiment of rejecting every word and expression of racist and xenophobic violence by expressing, through the mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims of this explosion of blind hatred” . Mayor Matteo Renzi declared a day of mourning. Tomorrow, the minister of integration, Andrea Riccardi, will arrive in town to meet the senegalese community.