Activists from No Borders, International Workers of the World, Crossoads Women centre and others held a lively protest at the Italian Toursit Board last Friday, 3rd October.
Chanting: Italy stop racist attacks; Italy: stop killing Roma people; Italy: stop killing Black people.
Roma camps have gone on fire on at least 8 occasions.
The Italian right wing government are doing nothing to protect the Roma people from racist attacks: instead, they have passed 'emergency' decrees against the Roma; they have evicted camps and squatted buildings leaving the people in the street; they are proceeding to identify and fingerprint the Roma population including children; they have taken hundreds of children from their families. Leading politicians such as the Minister of Interior Maroni and Umberto Bossi, leader of the racist Northern League, have openly incited the mobs to attack and advocated the dismantling of camps and the expulsion of Roma - many of whom have been living in Italy for centuries and are Italian citiziens. Others have arrived from Eastern Europe in recent years, oftenf fleeing racist persecution there.
Two young fiancees of Sinti ethnicity have recently died in an arson attack in the province of Padova. The mayor of the town denies it was a racist attack A 13 years old Rom boy from Romania died in a fire: he was sleeping with his family in a derelict factory with no electricity and no heating and one candle caused the fire.
Other ethnic minorities and all immigrtants are under attack as well. There have been numerous racist attacks culminating in the murder of 19 years old Abba (Abdul Guibre) in Milano. He was beaten to death for stealig some buiscuits.
6 immigrants of African origin died in a massacre in the Neaples province and a seventh was critically injuried when unknown persons fired 130 bullets at them. Protests and great anger for these murders and today, 4th October, more than 15.000 persons amongst whom many migrants have taken to the streets in protest.
Roma camps have gone on fire on at least 8 occasions.
The Italian right wing government are doing nothing to protect the Roma people from racist attacks: instead, they have passed 'emergency' decrees against the Roma; they have evicted camps and squatted buildings leaving the people in the street; they are proceeding to identify and fingerprint the Roma population including children; they have taken hundreds of children from their families. Leading politicians such as the Minister of Interior Maroni and Umberto Bossi, leader of the racist Northern League, have openly incited the mobs to attack and advocated the dismantling of camps and the expulsion of Roma - many of whom have been living in Italy for centuries and are Italian citiziens. Others have arrived from Eastern Europe in recent years, oftenf fleeing racist persecution there.
Two young fiancees of Sinti ethnicity have recently died in an arson attack in the province of Padova. The mayor of the town denies it was a racist attack A 13 years old Rom boy from Romania died in a fire: he was sleeping with his family in a derelict factory with no electricity and no heating and one candle caused the fire.
Other ethnic minorities and all immigrtants are under attack as well. There have been numerous racist attacks culminating in the murder of 19 years old Abba (Abdul Guibre) in Milano. He was beaten to death for stealig some buiscuits.
6 immigrants of African origin died in a massacre in the Neaples province and a seventh was critically injuried when unknown persons fired 130 bullets at them. Protests and great anger for these murders and today, 4th October, more than 15.000 persons amongst whom many migrants have taken to the streets in protest.
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