Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo
Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo
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undled on to the Milan‐Dakar flight for repatriation. Mor Niang rebels against this<br />
situation. Although his hands and feet are tied and he has a police escort, he begins to<br />
shout so loudly that the plane’s captain is obliged to make him get <strong>of</strong>f for safety<br />
reasons. Once he is back on the ground, he receives a sound beating. “I was the victim,”<br />
the Senegalese man states,” <strong>of</strong> unjustifiable violence. I ask for justice.”<br />
Source: Il Fatto Quoti<strong>di</strong>ano<br />
12 December 2009 Bolzano (BZ), Trentino Alto A<strong>di</strong>ge<br />
The Northern League demands that posters expressing solidarity placed on the spot<br />
where Moussa Oulachagar, 18, born in Bolzano <strong>of</strong> Moroccan parents, <strong>di</strong>ed in a serious<br />
car accident, be taken down. “I can’t believe it, it’s abominable,” Ben Jannet, Moussa’s<br />
father, says. “Why is there such strong hatred against us Moussa never hurt anyone;<br />
we have been living here, working regularly, for 23 years... Is it possible that these<br />
people cannot understand our grief What next We are all equal in the face <strong>of</strong> death:<br />
there are neither Christians nor Muslims.” The man then mentions another incident<br />
which the Carabinieri are looking into: a comment supposedly posted on a blog,<br />
referring to Moussa’s death: “One down.”<br />
Fonte: altoa<strong>di</strong>ge.gelocal.it<br />
14 December 2009 Cassano Magnago (VA) Lombardy<br />
Near the sports sta<strong>di</strong>um, two teenagers – a Serbian boy aged 13 and his female cousin<br />
aged 17 – are approached by a group <strong>of</strong> five or six youngsters <strong>of</strong> a similar age, who, for<br />
no apparent reason, start to chase them and taunt them with racist insults. (“F**king<br />
Serbs, go back to your own country.”) The two cousins try to run <strong>of</strong>f, but their<br />
persecutors catch up with them and start pushing them around. The boy, by then on the<br />
ground, is repeatedly kicked. The the police enquiry leads to the identification <strong>of</strong> five<br />
minors, reported to the public prosecutor’s <strong>of</strong>fice at the juvenile court <strong>of</strong> Milan on<br />
counts <strong>of</strong> grievous bo<strong>di</strong>ly harm and insults aggravated by racial <strong>di</strong>scrimination.<br />
Fonte: varesenews.it<br />
14 December 2009 Rome (RM), Lazio<br />
Ruth Piperno, a Jewish trader who runs a stall in Campo de’ Fiori market, becomes the<br />
object <strong>of</strong> insults and threats. “F***ing Jews, we’ll get rid <strong>of</strong> you,” they say to her.<br />
Accor<strong>di</strong>ng to the statement given by her husband, the insults were imparted by a<br />
number <strong>of</strong> street vendors whose licences had recently been revoked. “We have been<br />
receiving threats for a long time. It’s impossible to carry on like this. Today is just the<br />
last in a long series <strong>of</strong> insults, even inclu<strong>di</strong>ng a lighted cigarette butt thrown at our<br />
stall,” Marco Salmoni, another market trader in Campo dd’ Fiori, explains.<br />
Source: romatoday.it<br />
19 December 2009 Montecchio Maggiore (VI), Veneto<br />
Mayor Milena Cecchetto decides to extend the remit <strong>of</strong> housing regulations to<br />
temporary hospitality. Therefore, foreign citizens in possession <strong>of</strong> a regular residence<br />
permit cannot put up guests (not even for a night) in their homes, if this would involve<br />
excee<strong>di</strong>ng the maximum number <strong>of</strong> people allowed by in<strong>di</strong>vidual housing regulations.<br />
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