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The on-line environment and the social networks are the favorite and cheapest way to share fast and cost-free your ideas and thoughts. The principle of the freedom of speech is an advantage able to wave on various occasions. Including when you use it for expressing your hate, and even the incitement to kill.
In Italy the anti-immigration campaign is continuing, two days before the discussion of the security package by the Council of Ministers. The package was drafted by the Minister of Interior, Roberto Maroni, representing the anti-immigration Northern League. He also announced its intention to call for a G8 reunion, this May, dedicated to countering the illegal immigration. Also this Friday, the Senate is expected to discuss an anti-rape decree, issued by the same minister, aiming to prevent and counter those crimes. Last Saturday, the Italian media covered the case of a 14 year old girl, raped by a man of Romanian origin.
The Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, rejected recently one of the key of the security package, the creation of volutarily militia units, working alongside the police force in the operations of identification of people considered a security problem. In the last two years, such units operated at informal level in various towns in Italy and were involved in various actions against the Roma people and immigrants, including the arson attack on the Roma settlement from Milan, in 2007. Between November 2005 and June 2007 the so-called “Black Panda Gang” made up of private citizens and members of the police force, were guilty of many cases of beatings, violence and kidnapping carried out against illegal immigrants.
Among the provisions of the package it is also the requirement for doctors to denounce to the police their patients, if they detain information they are illegal immigrants. According to Vivere Italia, Sveva Belviso, in charge with the social policies at the Mayory of Rome, created a Facebook group where the members are encouraged to offer information about the illegal Roma camps. Out of the 352 members - as for yesterday - 14 of them already reported such situations.
Also on Facebook, a couple of groups - whose age range of the members is mostly between 20-40 - are preaching various actions against the immigrants, mainly Romanians (rom+rum, Quelli che odiano i romeni, Piacere di conoscerti??? /ironisation of the logo a recent public affairs campaign of Romania in Italy etc.) - but also Chineses, Albanians, Tunisians. You could find there: anti-immigration posters; calls for expelling of all Romanians or even for coordinate action to aggress and kill them; solidarity with the victims of rape, violence and murder; call for individuals to do justice "by themselves, as long as the Italian justice is inefficient"; expulsion of Chinese immigrants. On the other side, the Romanian and anti-racism groups are almost absent, groups as "Against fingerprinting of the Roma community" or "Stop Discrimination against Romanians" aren't active for one, respectively almost two years.
The anti-immigration discourse is a constant of the last years in the Italian politics. As a leader of the opposition, in November 2007, the current prime-minister, Silvio Berlusconi, urged Italy to close its borders to Romanian workers and a conservative ally, from the Northern League called for an expulsion of tens of thousands of immigrants, after a wave of alleged crimes by foreigners.
The targets of the "citizen justice" are not only Romanians - after the rape of the 14 year girl, in the North of Sardinia, ten Italians entered and attacked in their house two men and one woman of Romanian origin - but other immigrants as well. On February 4, the Italian president called for a stop to xenophobia and racist violences, after an Indian man was beaten and set on fire near Rome. Navtej Singh Sidhua, a 35 year-old homeless working in constructions, was attacked while sleeping rough at a train station at the seaside town of Nettuno near Rome. Police have arrested two adults and a minor, who have confessed pouring petrol on him and setting him on fire. The reason: according to the Police sources quoted by ANSA news agency, the group wanted to "cap off" a night on the town, fuelled by drugs and alcohol, by doing something "sensational, to experience an intense emotion". In late October, a Chinese immigrant was beaten up by teenagers, while waiting for a bus in Rome and a young student from Ghana was beaten by Parma traffic police who mistook him for a drug posher.
According to statistics covering more than ten years, the assumption of a possible increase of the level of crime under the effect of the recent immigration waves is not covered by the reality.
In Italy the anti-immigration campaign is continuing, two days before the discussion of the security package by the Council of Ministers. The package was drafted by the Minister of Interior, Roberto Maroni, representing the anti-immigration Northern League. He also announced its intention to call for a G8 reunion, this May, dedicated to countering the illegal immigration. Also this Friday, the Senate is expected to discuss an anti-rape decree, issued by the same minister, aiming to prevent and counter those crimes. Last Saturday, the Italian media covered the case of a 14 year old girl, raped by a man of Romanian origin.
The Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, rejected recently one of the key of the security package, the creation of volutarily militia units, working alongside the police force in the operations of identification of people considered a security problem. In the last two years, such units operated at informal level in various towns in Italy and were involved in various actions against the Roma people and immigrants, including the arson attack on the Roma settlement from Milan, in 2007. Between November 2005 and June 2007 the so-called “Black Panda Gang” made up of private citizens and members of the police force, were guilty of many cases of beatings, violence and kidnapping carried out against illegal immigrants.
Among the provisions of the package it is also the requirement for doctors to denounce to the police their patients, if they detain information they are illegal immigrants. According to Vivere Italia, Sveva Belviso, in charge with the social policies at the Mayory of Rome, created a Facebook group where the members are encouraged to offer information about the illegal Roma camps. Out of the 352 members - as for yesterday - 14 of them already reported such situations.
Also on Facebook, a couple of groups - whose age range of the members is mostly between 20-40 - are preaching various actions against the immigrants, mainly Romanians (rom+rum, Quelli che odiano i romeni, Piacere di conoscerti??? /ironisation of the logo a recent public affairs campaign of Romania in Italy etc.) - but also Chineses, Albanians, Tunisians. You could find there: anti-immigration posters; calls for expelling of all Romanians or even for coordinate action to aggress and kill them; solidarity with the victims of rape, violence and murder; call for individuals to do justice "by themselves, as long as the Italian justice is inefficient"; expulsion of Chinese immigrants. On the other side, the Romanian and anti-racism groups are almost absent, groups as "Against fingerprinting of the Roma community" or "Stop Discrimination against Romanians" aren't active for one, respectively almost two years.
The anti-immigration discourse is a constant of the last years in the Italian politics. As a leader of the opposition, in November 2007, the current prime-minister, Silvio Berlusconi, urged Italy to close its borders to Romanian workers and a conservative ally, from the Northern League called for an expulsion of tens of thousands of immigrants, after a wave of alleged crimes by foreigners.
The targets of the "citizen justice" are not only Romanians - after the rape of the 14 year girl, in the North of Sardinia, ten Italians entered and attacked in their house two men and one woman of Romanian origin - but other immigrants as well. On February 4, the Italian president called for a stop to xenophobia and racist violences, after an Indian man was beaten and set on fire near Rome. Navtej Singh Sidhua, a 35 year-old homeless working in constructions, was attacked while sleeping rough at a train station at the seaside town of Nettuno near Rome. Police have arrested two adults and a minor, who have confessed pouring petrol on him and setting him on fire. The reason: according to the Police sources quoted by ANSA news agency, the group wanted to "cap off" a night on the town, fuelled by drugs and alcohol, by doing something "sensational, to experience an intense emotion". In late October, a Chinese immigrant was beaten up by teenagers, while waiting for a bus in Rome and a young student from Ghana was beaten by Parma traffic police who mistook him for a drug posher.
According to statistics covering more than ten years, the assumption of a possible increase of the level of crime under the effect of the recent immigration waves is not covered by the reality.
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