Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo

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number of street vendors whose licences had recently been revoked.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