Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo

concussion, while his three friends manage to run away and call the Carabinieri police
in Ostia. According to the police reconstruction, it constituted a proper, pre‐planned
attack. The Carabinieri identify five individuals, all underage.
Source: Corriere della Sera
11 November 2009 Azzano Decimo (PN), Friuli Venezia Giulia
Enzo Bortolotti, Northern League mayor, has already become known for putting
padlocks on public rubbish skips in order to deny their use to non‐residents, installing
“anti‐vandalism” cameras in the oratory and fitting out traffic policemen with
bulletproof vests. As his next measure, he decides to introduce an “Islamic census”. It is
not, in actual fact, a proper census, but rather a recording of all Muslims present in
town. The mayor’s request, regularly placed on the agenda, does not seem to have met
with any objections from the town council.
Source: blizquotidiano.it
11 November 2009 Bolzano (BZ), Trentino Alto Adige
Police in Bolzano arrest Dominik Defatsch, a 19‐year‐old painter and decorator, and
carry out 17 house searches, nine of which involve underage boys, in the course of the
“Black Spot” operation, against a group of young skinhead Nazi‐sympathizers known
as “Naturnser Hitler Jugend”, Hitler Youth from Naturno. In the course of the searches
files with neo‐Nazi content are found, as well as clothing, jacket pins and other
memorabilia. The members of the group are accused of distributing neo‐nazi material
and spreading concepts and ideas based on racist hatred. Among the confiscated items
is a video that shows them in the act of putting together and throwing Molotov
cocktails. The investigations, begun in October 2008, helped to identify the members of
the youth group who on more than one occasion carried out violent attacks, the most
serious being an assault on three Polish youths. The group advertised their activities on
the netlog.com web portal under the initials “88N.H.J.88”.
Source: La Repubblica
12 November 2009 Alba Adriatica (TE), Abruzzo
The torchlit procession of solidarity for the family of Emanuele Fadani, 37, shopkeeper
and father of a six‐year‐old girl, killed by three drunk Roma outside of a pub, breaks
out into a proper anti‐Roma uprising with burnt and overturned cars, stones and smoke
bombs thrown towards Roma houses and a fire being set in one of these. Over 200
people initiate a “gypsy hunt” yelling “murderers, murderers ... get lost”. Policemen,
Carabinieri and traffic wardens try to call them to order in an attempt to avoid tragic
consequences, but to no avail. The Romanì Federation writes to the Commissioner for
Human Rights of the Council of Europe and to several local institutions. “So far,”
President Nazzareno Guarnieri writes, “the Federation has responsibly avoided
needless confrontations in order to get past this tragedy without inflicting further pain.
But the fierce “pogrom” against Roma that has been going on for several day in Alba is
pure anti‐gypsy racism: if a major tragedy has not yet occurred, it is only thanks to
police efforts. The pogrom has been going on for several days amid the deafening
silence of civil society, politics and institutions”.
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