Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo

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the roof, flanked here by two Celtic crosses. The President is forced to issue a public statement requesting their removal. The estimated cost is of about 2.500 euros. This sum would have fed at least two children in the canteen for a year. buy the furniture, he invited citizens to make a donation: according to the mayor this would allow him to use the private funds in whatever way he chose. 108
The death of Maricica Hahaianu Grazia Naletto Rome, Friday, 8 October 2010. Maricica Hahaianu, Romanian nurse of 33, resident in Italy for five years and mother of a three‐year‐old boy is at the Anagnina metro station. While she is queuing at the newspaper kiosk inside the station to buy her ticket, a trivial argument breaks out with Alessio Burtone (20) concerning respective places in the queue. The quarrel seems to peter out after the tickets are purchased, but instead it resumes in the station concourse; surveillance cameras document the whole episode. Maricica approaches the young man while walking towards the train: they argue, push each other about until the young man suddenly throws a punch at the woman’s face; she drops lifeless to the ground. About ten people pass next to the inert body without stopping. Then, finally, one of the passers‐by sounds the alarm and runs after Burtone, stopping him and handing him over to a policeman. Maricica is admitted to Casilino general hospital where she undergoes a difficult surgical procedure: she has suffered a serious brain injury. The doctors decide to keep her in a state of induced coma for four days. On 12 April the coma treatment is interrupted after a slight improvement but she remains in a critical condition. Two days later a further lapse heralds her death, on 15 April. Alessio Burtone is detained and initially charged with grievous bodily harm. The preliminary hearing judge allows him to remain under house arrest, revoked after the death of Maricica when the charge is commuted into “involuntary manslaughter aggravated by a trivial motive”. A story that, like many others, proves how easy it is for a trivial discussion to rapidly progress into tragedy and for aggressiveness to degenerate into gratuitous violence, partly due to the endless ‘security’ scares. But there is more. As is commonplace when an incident involves an Italian and a foreign citizen, the tragic affair goes hand in hand with a distorted public debate that tends to lose sight of the key issue: a woman’s absurd and incomprehensible death. A sort of “football‐game clamate” builds up around the aggressor’s possible fate 279 especially in the many readers’ comments published by the online press, but which also encompasses the political world and the witnesses at Anagnina station . 280 The press takes an approach that is only superficially neutral. A more in‐depth analysis reveals many differences with respect to the media’s portrayal of a similar, but 279 This expression is used by Roberta Carlini in an article published on the website www.ingenere.it, Maricica, 21 October 2010. 280 It is not possible to give an account here of the many online contributions still available on the websites of the main national newspapers that each tend to side with either the victim or her aggressor. Instead, we can give some examples of witness accounts put together by journalists. “I was behind them when they left the shop. The young man was walking ahead and the woman was following him, hurling insults at him and later punching and kicking him. The young man turned around and said “Lay off it” and inadvertently struck her with his hand. She dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes”. This is the account given by a shopkeeper who works in the underground station: he defends the aggressor by claiming to have witnessed the whole episode. He adds: “I have never seen anything like it in sixty years: a woman so intent on hitting a man. That woman really asked for it. She even called him a pig”, cf. “La Repubblica”, 12 October 2010, cit. “Sorry, sorry, sorry, I didn’t mean to pass in front of you… She repeated that three times, but the young man, probably after having that realized she was Romanian, continued to provoke and insult her: ‘Filthy Romanians, go back to Romania’”, this is the very different account given to the police by the owner of the shop in question, published on the website of “il Messaggero” Testimoni divisi, una barista: ‘Gli ha chiesto scusa e lui: tornatene in Romania’ (Disagreements among witnesses, a bartender: “She apologized and he replied: go back to Romania’) 13 October 2010. 109
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