Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo

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Age groups of the victims of acts of discrimination and violence recorded between 1 January 2007 and 31 August 2011 Years 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL Age ranges E1V MINOR 17 18 33 24 26 118 E2V YOUTH 12 32 71 70 56 241 E3V ADULT 26 40 99 52 46 263 E4V ELDERLY 0 0 1 2 0 3 UNKNOWN 70 50 170 160 236 686 TOTAL 125 140 374 308 364 1311 Source: Lunaria, www.cronachediordinariorazzismo.org Targets of acts of discrimination and violence recorded between 1 January 2007 and 31 August 2011 Years 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTALE Targets G1 Roma 27 24 23 34 39 147 G2 Muslims 14 6 28 19 30 97 G3 Jews 8 2 13 18 23 64 Source: Lunaria, www.cronachediordinariorazzismo.org 130
An 360° view Paola Andrisani This new “checklist of intolerance” spans the period between July 2009 and August 2011 and proposes to illustrate the process through which racist acts enter into common, everyday practice, following in the footsteps of the first White Paper. On the one hand it is difficult to recount concisely what has come to pass in the intervening two years, because every single case has its own relevance and weight. On the other hand, we have attempted to give an overall qualitative picture in order to account for both the everyday racism of common people and the acts of violence and discrimination carried out by institutions, in order to avoid the process which sees cases of racism become commonplace, part of the daily routine. One important innovation in this edition is the inclusion of a number of in‐depth articles that lead up to the collection of tales of everyday racism. Our choice fell on on some episodes that, in view of their gravity and exemplary nature, help us to illustrate what we set out in our case study. The murders of Nourredine Adnane and Abderrahaman Salhi, for example, are effective examples of institutional racism on the part of the police. 320 Along the same lines, the case of Imad El Kaalouli is a classic tale of everyday racism in the labour market, 321 unfortunately recurring many times and resulting in a terrible murder. The story of Yussuf Errahali as well as being a notable example of racist violence inflicted by a group of young Italians, is also important in that, along with many other cases, it belongs to the list of occurrences completely forgotten by the media and the institutions 322 , so much so that were not able to follow the outcomes. Foreign citizens are treated as “subhuman individuals” (like Jon Cazacu, Andrea Cosmin, Mohamed Saif and many others) whose deaths can be swept under the rug. The picture is rounded off by an in‐depth article about the deplorable affair of the evacuations of Roma settlements carried out in the capital in April 2011, an analysis of the wave of racist statements made in the course of the mayoral elections in Milan and a look at the new spread of racism online, with particular reference to the increase of racist groups on Facebook. 320 A Moroccan boy aged 18, Aziz Amiri, is shot and killed by a Carabinieri officer in Mornico al Serio in February 2010. The Human Rights Report from the US State Department, signed by Hillary Clinton, lists Amiri’s death among “controversial murders” on gournds of “arbitrary or illegal loss of life” and of “disproportionate use of force” together with the cases of Federico Aldrovandi, Gabriele Sandri and Stefano Cucchi. This death was written peremptorily off as an “accident” (“La Repubblica”, “L’eco di Bergamo”), but in the Bergamo area it has at least one notable and unfortunate precedent (we are referring of course to the affair of the “Black Panda”, the group of Carabinieri officers and traffic policemen who went round viciously attacking foreigners between 2005 and 2007). 321 Ibrahim M’Bodi, Senegalese national, brother of Adam M’Bodi, a leader of the local branch of the Cgil, was killed in similar circumstances, stabbed nine times by his employer Michele D’Onofrio in Biella on December 2009. The latter had refused to pay three months worth of outstanding salary (“La Stampa”, “La Repubblica”). the same thing happened in May 2007, even if we only come to know of it after three years of mystery and silence: the murderer of Ivan Misu, a Romanian labourer who had disappeared in the countryside near Frosinone, is arrested in April 2010. Here too it is his employer who is charged with murder. The man had beaten him up, tortured him and eventually melted his body in acid, purely because he suspected him of having stolen a few litres of petrol from one of his trucks (“La Repubblica”, “Corriere della Sera”). And again, in April 2010, another gruesome episode dating back to August 2006 comes to light: the murder of two Romanian labourers, working in the black economy, who only asked to be paid for the work they had done. Their employer, arrested in Bergamo, had shot them several times with a rifle and then hidden their bodies in a large basin (“Il Giorno”). 322 Cf Pierre Ciurar’s exemplary instance of “non-news”, illustrated in chapter 3 “The media and racism” 131
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council Danilo Narduzzi, Italian wo
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