Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo

As the flames start to spread the two migrants shout for help. Some passers‐by and a
police patrol come running. The perpetrators are long gone.
Source: La città di Salerno
16 June 2010 Naples (NA), Campania
Eight teenagers – five boys and three girls – attack two Filipino immigrants, kicking and
punching them for no apparent reason and then issue threats: “if you report us, we will
kill you, we will cut your heads off.” The two victims are Joel Manuel, 46, president of
the Filipino community and Josè Yoro, 54, both of whom have lived in the city for 20
years. They are taken to hospital with cuts and bruises. “What happened is extremely
serious,” they say. “We have no idea why they attacked us; maybe they were bored and
looking for some form of entertainment. Like us, many Filipinos are beaten up in the
street. Once, they threw a can of coke at a man from a moving motorbike, on several
occasions they have thrown punches at us from their mopeds. The sitution has been
getting progressively worse in the past year. Many of our fellow countrymen would not
think to go to the police because they are scared, and this is why have chosen to tell the
world our story.”
Source: La Repubblica
28 June 2010 Meolo (VE), Veneto
Three Senegalese workers who have been resident in Italy for nearly ten years,
employed in Brescia by a firm which specialises in geothermic underfloor heating, are
doing some work in a house in the town of Meolo. Hving finished work, at about 9.30
PM, they make their way the hotel, booked in advance by their company. While the son
of the owner is taking down their orders for dinner, his father bursts in and verbally
attacks the three men, insulting them and trying to kick them out of his hotel. Mother
and son try their best to calm down the incensed man. The three Senegalese men,
mortified by the unpleasant occurrence, look for another hotel, and finally find one later
that evening near Treviso. The next day they report the incident to the police.
Source: quotidiano.net
29 June 2010 Santa Sofia (FC) Emilia Romagna
Ba Madame, a blue‐collar worker born in Senegal, is insulted and attacked by the
director of the “Pollo del Campo” firm, part of the Amadori group, where she has
worked for six years. She is taken in an ambulance to hospital where they tell her that
she has sprained her shoulder and left leg. The answer provided by one of the company
managers to her family members, who rushed to Pollo del Campo to ask for some sort
of explanation, is distressing: “your mother was lucky that we didn’t fire her.” After the
complaint filed by the woman for violence and verbal abuse, the firm did not make any
attempt at reconciliation. Instead, a few days later, Ba receives a letter of justified
dismissal and a notification of libel action from the manager who assaulted her.
Source: lascintillaonline.org
30 June 2010 Naples (NA), Campania
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