League drops 'remigration' call after killer turns out to be Italian

The rightwing League party on Tuesday

dropped calls for the 'remigration' of a man accused of killing

a pizzamaker in Reggio Emilia after the alleged murderer turned

out to be Italian and not a migrant as had initially been

reported on social media.

The suspect, a 42-year-old Reggio man with drug addiction and

mental issues, allegedly stabbed to death 67-year-old pizzamaker

Raffaele Stipa Monday evening after his demand for an umpteenth

free pizza was turned down.

The local chapter of the League immediately called for the

reportedly foreign man to become a candidate for remigration, a

deportation policy even for settled migrants which has been

pushed lately by far-right general-turned politician Roberto

Vannacci, a former League deputy leader who has set up his own

radical rightist party.

The calls ended when the suspect was identified as an Italian.

League leader Matteo Salvini, who called for remigraton long

before Vannacci turned it into a hot-button issue, has said he

is "fed up" of hearing about his former deputy, who has

overtaken him in the polls.

photo: Salvini

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