GENOA – Manuel Di Palo, 38, a member of the far-right, fascist inspired Casapound movement, was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon by a leading figure of an anti-vaccine association, Filippo Giribaldi, 43, who has since been arrested, local police said. 

 Di Palo was fatally shot in Via Polleri, in Genoa’s central Carmine district, after an argument with Giribaldi. 

 From an initial reconstruction, the quarrel, apparently linked to drug-related reasons involving Giribaldi’s partner, began in Salita San Bartolomeo del Carmine. 

 A few shots were fired, after which the two chased each other until the fatal bullet was fired and hit Di Palo. 

 Within minutes, local police had located and arrested Giribaldi who had taken refuge in the nearby Santissima Annunziata church. 

 “Call the police, I killed a man, I killed a man,” Giribaldi said in a state of confusion to the sacristan, Jean Pascal Colì, who immediately alerted the police. 

 The murder weapon was found under a car not far from the crime scene, in Piazza Bandiera, and taken into custody by forensic investigators. 

 The man killed had been sentenced in 2020 to eight months on probation for a stabbing in 2018 of an anti-fascist who was putting up posters not far from the Genoese Casapound headquarters. 

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