A rich-kid Latest Yorker is among the many nearly two dozen “violent agitators” charged with domestic terrorism after a protest at the location of a future Atlanta police training facility descended into chaos.
Mattia Luini, 30, and his fellow protestors are accused of carrying out Sunday’s “coordinated attack” on the under-construction Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which saw cops pelted with Molotov cocktails and fireworks.
Luini, whose late father Ivan Luini helped popularize high-end plastic furniture within the US, was still stuck behind bars as of Tuesday afternoon, online court records showed.
His mother, Micaela Martegani, who’s involved within the Big Apple’s art world, told The Post Tuesday that she’d only spoken to her son briefly since his arrest — and that he’d insisted the violent incident was “completely random.”
“We haven’t been in a position to talk in much detail. He doesn’t know much of what happened,” Martegani said.
“(Mattia) said it was completely random. I don’t know greater than that.”
Luini had said he was heading to Atlanta over the weekend only to attend a concert and “protest the event of the forest,” in accordance with his mom.
Police, nonetheless, say he was amongst those that allegedly staged an attack to protest the $90 million development of the training center — dubbed “Cop City”.
It wasn’t immediately clear what Luini, who appears to have been raised in Latest York City, currently does for a living or if he still calls the Big Apple home.
His businessman father, Ivan, was president of the Latest York-based Kartell US — a high-end Italian furniture company that specialized in plastic design.
The elder Luini was killed in a small plane crash near the Colorado-Wyoming border back in 2006, the Latest York Times reported on the time.
Meanwhile, Luini’s mom is the founder and director of More Art — a non-profit organization that helps create public art projects across town.
Martegani told The Post on Tuesday she wasn’t sure if she would head to Atlanta to fulfill together with her currently-imprisoned son.
“He’s doing okay. I spoke to him recently but I’m unsure yet if I’m going to go all the way down to Atlanta,” she said.
Cops have accused Luini and his fellow protestors of allegedly using the “cover of a peaceful protest” on the proposed training center to unleash havoc.
“They became black clothing, entered the development area, and started to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at cops,” cops said. “The agitators destroyed multiple pieces of construction equipment by fire and vandalism.”
Among the many others arrested was 28-year-old Thomas Webb Jurgens — an Atlanta-based attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The vast majority of those arrested hail from outside Georgia, including so far as France and Canada, police said.
