A Bangladeshi and an Egyptian were insulted and picketed in the center of Rome by a group of Italian thugs. However, episodes of violence against immigrant citizens are ever more frequent in our cities. Naletto (Lunaria): “Today, racism is considered legitimate”. In the last two years 1,500 cases of discrimination
A Bangladeshi and an Egyptian were insulted and picketed in the center of Rome by a group of Italian thugs. However, episodes of violence against immigrant citizens are ever more frequent in our cities. Naletto (Lunaria): “Today, racism is considered legitimate”. In the last two years 1,500 cases of discrimination
ROME - Kartik Chondro, 27, originally from Bangladesh, had just finished his shift at the restaurant where he works, and was just returning home. But at the bus stop, five Romani boys, aged between 17 and 19, had first been insulted (“Sporco negro, gli immigrati via dall'Italia”) and then beaten. Alongside him, making the rounds of a night of violence in the heart of Rome, was an Egyptian citizen. The perpetrators, all of them young, some of them right-handed, some of them minors, have been reported for injuries, while one of them (who had injured the strongest calcium in the entire city) is in custody for attempted murder. The Nazi attack on two immigrant citizens is not an isolated case, but the latest in a series of violent episodes that have involved not only the capital but also other Italian cities.
Dai Bangal tour agli omicidi, la lista (troppo lunga) delle aggressioni a sfondo razziale. On the night of the day, a 64-year-old man, a rumen, was chopped up and given to the fiamme in Turin. The inquiries are still ongoing, but the man says he only remembers an incapacitated person who poured out the infamous liquid. Episodi che allungano la lista delle aggressioni a danno di cittadini stranieri negli ultimi mesi. In August, the film of a boy who had been sent to Aqui Terme, in the province of Alessandria, to seek asylum in a pigsty, made the rounds of the web. Always in Rome, in the Tiburtino III quarter, a man was attacked in front of the asylum center run by Croce Rossa. A story of violence that has been going on for years. In 2013, the search for Rome led to an outbreak of the so-called “Bangla tour”, punitive raids against Bangladeshi citizens, organized by right-wing groups. There are no serious cases of murder. As in the case of Muhammad Shazad Kan, a 28-year-old Pakistani citizen, who was murdered in Rome in the Tor Pignattara quarter on September 18, 2014. Oppure di Roberto Pantic nella notte tra il 21 e 22 febbraio 2015 a Calcio (Bg), ucciso con un colpo di pistola mentre estava dormendo nella sua roulotte. Sare Mamadou, invece, è stato ucciso da un colpo di fucile in pieno petto perché aveva rubato in un campo un melone, a Lucera il 21 settembre 2015. Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, a 36-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker, was killed on June 5, 2016 in Fermo by Amedeo Mancini. The case was dismissed with a patteggiamento: Mancini was convicted of murder aggravated by hatred of reason, but with the attenuating factor of provocation, and sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment.
In the fourth white book on racism, the photograph of an ever more worrying phenomenon. “Razzismo ha ucciso molte volte” recalls the fourth white book on razzismo in Italia published just a month ago by the Lunaria association. In the lengthy report, which analyzes the subject from various points of view (institutional discrimination, physical and verbal violence, and other forms of racism), it points out that “the most tremendous forms of violence are both single individuals and groups, which almost always accompany physical violence with verbal violence: it is the latter that reveals the racism of the aggressions. Forse anche per questo per molti degli omicidi ricordati è stata contestata, in alcuni casi even riconosciuta, l'aggravante prevista dalla Legge Mancino”. As for the data, although as Ecri (European Commission against Racism and Intolerance) noted in its latest 2016 Report dedicated to Italy, our country does not yet have a coordinated, systematic and transparent national system for collecting data on discrimination and racist violence, these are the data collected by Unar (Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazioni Razziali), by Oscad (Osservatorio per la Sicurezza contro gli Atti Discriminatori), by the data bank of the State Police Intelligence System (Sdi), by the Ministry of Justice and by Istat (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica). From 2010 to 2017, Oscad received a total of 1,936 reports, 945 of which were on people with discriminatory racial identities.2 Of these, 579 had a racist movement. The data recorded in the State Police Investigation System provide greater detail on the typology of specifically racist crimes, as was the case in 2015 and 2016. I reati punibili ai sensi della Legge Mancino archiviati nello Sdi sono stati 188 nel 2015 e 154 nel 2016. Among these, the Nazi demonstrations or the banning of Nazi symbols at public meetings resulted in 98 in 2015 and 84 in 2016; the accesses to the stadiums with Nazi symbols 6, all in 2016; the aggravating circumstance qualifies 90 of the cases registered in 2015 and 70 in 2016. Sono invece 67 nel 2015 e 53 nel 2016 i reati registrati con riferimento alla Legge Reale: i reati di propaganda, istigazione o commissione di atti di discriminazione sono 31 nel 2015 e 18 nel 2016; le istigazioni o commissioni di violenze razziste 32 nel 2015 e 28 nel 2016; i reati di partecipazione o assistenza a gruppi razzisti 3 nel 2015 e 3 nel 2016; i casi di promozione o direzione di associazioni o gruppi razzisti 1 nel 2015 e 4 nel 2016. Regarding the discriminatory acts reported to Unar (whose competence covers discrimination of a non-criminal nature), 2,652 of the 2,939 structures opened in 2016 were found to be relevant: the most common movement was ethnic or racist (69 percent). In all, in ten years, between May 1, 2007 and May 31, 2017, Lunaria has documented 5,853 cases of discrimination, speeches, propaganda material, offenses, damage to property, aggressions and killings of a racist nature. Of these, 1,483 refer to the period between May 1, 2015 and May 31, 2017.
“The most recent period, observed in the light of the previous years, brings together ordinary racism, a vigilant racism and, at the same time, a spurred racism - said Grazia Naletto, president of Lunaria. Watch out because not all the authors of the denigrations, mincemeat and insults spread online would be able to do the same in front of a person in the flesh. Without shame, because nowadays much more than ten years ago, violence is one of the ordinary modalities that characterize the system of social relationships and public discourse, especially online. In a context that embraces the definition of one's own identity not from what one is, but from what distinguishes one from any other, and has blurred the line between the human and the inhuman, racism is considered legitimate more than in the past, even if it is arrogantly defended and can be condemned to a sweet death. And there are many, among those who are not infected by xenophobia and racism, who dislike it or who try, more or less explicitly, to justify it”. (Eleonora Camilli)
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