Some documented cases 02-06-2018, San Calogero (VV) - Calabria Source: La Repubblica Sacko Soumayla, the twenty-nine-year-old Malian man union activist of USB, was killed by a shot from a long distance shotgun(60 meters) last night. The victim had got into the “Ex-Fornace”, an abandoned brick factory, together with two other compatriots, Madiheri Drame, 30, and M [...]
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The return of the race
Racism preceded and followed the national election in Italy of 4 March under the banner of "return of the race". We report this in a new dossier edited by Lunaria, starting from the 169 cases of discrimination and racism that we documented between January 1 and March 31, 2018, trying to highlight the most worrying trends, the most serious racist violence , the virality of [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism April 2018
Some documented cases 01-04-2018, Pieve di Soligo (VI) - Veneto Source: oggitreviso.it Two young Bengalis were attacked and beaten in the city centrearound 3 am. According to a first reconstruction of the facts, a car was located just behind them as they were returning home and started to honk the horn. The car driver got out of the vehicle and took one of t [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism March 2018
Some documented cases 05-03-2018, Florence (FI) - Tuscany Source: cronachediordinariorazzismo.org Roberto Pirrone is a 64-year-old man from Florence, with no criminal record and a regular firearms license for sporting use. Around 8.30 am he left his home in Viale Aleardi, after an umpteenth discussion with his wife, bringing a gun with him. Wandering through the str [...]
Shots on immigrants: racist raid in Macerata
A racist raid took place around 11 am in the city centre. A woman and five African men were hit by gun shots in the upper part of their body. Two of them have undergone surgery, one is in intensive care , the one more has a guarded prognosis. The perpetrator of the raid is Luca Traini, 28 years old, he is a skinhead and he has the tattoo of the far right group 'Third P [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism February 2018
Some documented cases 02-02-2018, Monselice (PD) - Veneto Source: blastingnews.com Around 10:30 pm, three Moroccan drunk citizens disturbed the quiet neighbourhood of Monselice. Suddenly one of the three threw a glass bottle against a passing car breaking through the rear window. A local family was on board, namely: father, mother and the 17-year-old son. Luckily [...]
Racist attacks and discrimination January 2018
Some of the documented cases 10-01-2018, Castelnuovo (TE) - Abruzzo Source: ilmessaggero.it An asylum seeker from Cameroon, Sadar Bahar, known as Elia, wasverbally attacked while waiting for the bus to go home, the reception centre where he lives. He was waiting at the bus stop when four Italian citizensapproached him, got out of their [...]
Chronicles of ordinary racism. The Fourth White Book on Racism in Italy is on-line
Ordinary, legitimized and even flaunted; such is racism of the 4.0 age. The rhetoric of fear, instrumental politics, forms of institutional racism, misleading information, discrimination and widespread racist violence find in the net a space of encounter and mutual contamination. Stigmatizing and aggressive discourses encourage discriminatory acts and behaviors in the real [...]
Jo Cox Committee: Hate has a pyramidal development, it’s necessary to fight stereotypes
Stereotypes and prejudices create discrimination and hate speech, which prepare the fertile ground for hate crimes. It is a chain reaction the one represented by the Italian Commission on intolerance, xenophobia, racism and hate phenomena – called Jo Cox in memory of the British deputy killed on 16 June 2016 - in the final report presented on July 20 in Rome. A report that c [...]
Die at 24years-old for bad health care and racism
"A 24-year-old boy died yesterday in Naples, killed by racism and bad healthcare”: this is what reported on Facebook by the members of Ex Opg, a former psychiatric hospital, now abandoned and squatted by a goup of people in the Materdei district of Naples. The boy - Ibrahim Manneh, 24 years old- from the Ivory Coast, lived in Italy since 2010. He died in the night between S [...]
Europe: even more introverted, even less sympathetic
Support, resposability, solidarity. Detention, closure, rejections. Regarding the topic of migration, in European centers words mismatch facts. It isn’t a news: unfortunately it’s a leit motiv which already ecoes from years in institutional buildings and public speeches. A discrepancy between declared intents and token actions which emerged also today, during Tallin’s informal [...]
Die alone on the sidewalk. For “respectability”?
Yesterday in Rome a man died. His name was Niang Maguette and he was 54 years old. He was originally from Senegal. For thirty years in Italy, he worked as a peddler. He died on the sidewalk at Beatrice Cenci street, at the entrance to the Jewish Ghetto. He lost his life for causes to be clarified, during a city police operation against abusive trade, conducted in the area [...]
Migration and Asylum, what future for Europe?
The article that we report has been published by Sbilanciamoci.info within the collection 'Gli speciali di Sbilanciamoci': a series of discussions about the anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. In particular, this article is part of the thematic section on Fortress Europe. Deconstructing the mantra of ''unsustainable humanitarian emergency", from which we should try to defend [...]
Rimini, another racist violence
On the 22nd of March, around 7 p.m., in a little street next to Trieste St. in Rimini, in front of the A&O supermarket, a 39-year-old Italian man violently attack a 25-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker, who often helps people to empty the truck in exchange of few coins. Before the Italian man insults with racist phrases (like "Negro shi..., go back to your home"), then he [...]
“Relocation”, a missed goal
This article has been published by Sbilanciamoci.info within the dossier 'The specials of Sbilanciamoci': a series of analysis on the anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Specifically, this article is part of the thematic section on Fortress Europe. "Relocation", a missed goal It should represent "a firm commitment to solidarity between the Member States", but in numbers and [...]
Online ‘Reception. Propaganda and protests against refugee reception centers, the wrong institutional choices’
Protests against the existence or the opening of new reception centres for refugees and asylum seekers took place in our country, in big cities as in small municipalities. Underestimating the problems and risks that these episodes reveal would be a mistake. For this reason, Lunaria decided to dedicate an in-depth study to the analysis of 210 cases of popular opposition [...]
EU Court decision legitimises discrimination of Muslim women
Employers can forbid the headscarf to their female employees: this is the worrying data that emerges from the sentence of the European Union Court of Justice, which expressed it self on the complaint presented by of two muslim women in Belgium and France, which lost their jobs because of wearing a headscarf. The before-written employers, forbid their employees to show [...]
Do not disturb. Beating underway.
During the night of the last 22nd of July, in a casino in Torrenova street, in the eastern suburbs of Rome, a 42 years old senegalese citizen underwent to a violent assault from 5 roman youngsters. The man, security guard of the casino, was called with racist insults and then literally flung on the ground, punched and kicked in the head, and hit repeatedly with a [...]
Mafia extortion aggravated by racism: arrests and confiscations in Palermo
The anti-Mafia department of Palermo is investigating on the violence against the immigrant traders in the Palermo’s district of Ballarò. The police operation has started after the brave stance of some sellers, who wanted to stop the oppressive situation that suffocate them for long time. The reaction follows an harsh aggression against Yusupha Susso, a 21 [...]
On line the report Watch dog. Immigration, asylum, citizenship rights, discriminations and racism in the Parliamentary debate
98 law proposals submitted since the beginning of the parliamentary term and 286 parliamentary non-legislative acts discussed among February 1st and August 5th 2015: these are the results of the Lunaria monitoring of parliamentary work related to Immigration, asylum, citizenship rights, discriminations and racism. The analysis report has been presented this morning on [...]
Chronicles of Ordinary Racism. Third White Paper on Racism in Italy
Almost three years down the line, Lunaria has gone back to telling the Tales of everyday racism that define public and social life in our country. We have done so, this time, by casting our sights towards Europe, where last spring’s elections revealed a growing tide of nationalist, xenophobic and populist sentiment. This study is the result of the daily monitoring, reporting, i [...]
Rights are not an expense: english summary!
'Rights are not an expense' campaign: find here the english summary, containing data and informations revealed by the dossier Inhuman cost, Segregation at a price, Rights are not an expense, edited by Lunaria. Download the pdf document or browse it down here [...]
‘Segregation at a price’: online the english summary!
In Naples, Rome and Milan, between 2005 and 2011, at least a hundred million euros were set aside for the construction, running and maintenance of “traveller camps”, designated by institutional policy to ‘host’ Roma, Sinti, and Camminanti communities in our cities. The report Segregation at a price: the cost of “traveller camps” in Naples, Rome and Milan traces and [...]
An Inhuman cost: online the english version of the executive summary!
Between 2005 and 2012 Italy spent more than one billion six hundred thousand euros on policies aimed at combating illegal immigration: a considerable public expenditure that proved largely ineffective and violated the fundamental rights of migrants. The Report “An inhuman cost: public spending to combat illegal immigration”, edited by Lunaria, offers a det [...]
