Posted on 08/27/2014 2:34:27 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
A protest held by refugees against “monotonous” Italian food was “excessive”, especially at a time when thousands of Italians go hungry, the president of a police organization told The Local.
For two days, a group of about 40 asylum-seekers staying at a refugee centre in the Veneto province of Belluno refused to eat the “pasta with tomato sauce, bread and eggs” meals they were given and called to be fed food from their own countries, Libero Quotidiano reported.
To reinforce their point, they blocked a street with a wooden bench, put their lunch on the ground along with bags of clothes and threatened to leave the centre in La Secca, a hamlet in Ponte nelle Alpi.
They reportedly said “we do not eat this stuff”.
The refugees, said to have been staying at the centre for the past four months, also reportedly slashed the tires of cars belonging to staff working there in protest against living conditions.
The protest, which follows similar ones at centres in Pozzallo in Sicily and Rome, was also partly sparked by “boredom”, the newspaper said, as they “do not know what to do with themselves”.
Police soon broke up the protest and the refugees resumed eating, but Antonio De Lieto, the president of Libero Sindicato di Polizia, a non-profit organization that represents staff of the state police force, told The Local that the action was “excessive”.
“There are thousands of Italians living in poverty and who aren’t even eating one meal a day, let alone two or three,” he said.
“They’re not complaining that the food isn’t good, but that it is not the food of their countries. But when you’re hosted in someone’s home, for example, you eat their food, right? It’s like on the many occasions I’ve been hosted in England, I don’t expect to eat spaghetti.”
Sam, a migrant from Gambia who has been staying at a centre on the outskirts of Rome for almost a year, told The Local that the food, which mainly consists of pasta, “is not good” and that some have started making their own meals.
“We need the diet from our country,” he said.
Sam, who paid a people smuggler €4,000 to travel to Italy, said he passes the days by travelling on buses throughout the capital.
“I don’t want to hang around the centre all day. I can’t work and even if I could, too many Italians are also looking for jobs. Once I get my documents I want to go somewhere else, maybe Germany or The Netherlands.”
The obvious reply is, ahem, if you miss your local diet, then go back to where your diet is local.
How much more of this crap will the west be forced to tolerate until they stop the insanity.
You know where you can find good Gambian food?
Gambia.
Go back to your own home you ungrateful layabout.
Let them starve.
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Italians would have to try really hard to make Italian food bland and unappetizing (unless we are talking Piedmontese..)
How do they even GET to Italy from GAMBIA?
If they have enough hutzpah to make that journey, surely they can stomach free pasta.
They can eat lead.
In very many prisons around the world the state imprisoning you has no obligation to feed you — relatives must coe and do that.
If they don’t it may well be bye-bye to you.
People like what they're used to. The refugees aren't being fed normal Italian food - it's pasta in tomato sauce day-in and day-out. Obviously beggars can't be choosers, and they're acting like spoiled brats, but I can understand being bored with the same thing over and over. But not enough to mount a protest over, while a refugee in a foreign country. The problem is that the EU has this laundry list of illegal alien rights that precludes the Italian authorities from chloroforming the illegals, taking them hundreds of miles out into the Atlantic, and putting them on life rafts with paddles, a GPS and several weeks' worth of water and food, so they can make their way home, via slow raft to Africa.
Usually, they'll feed you, but you need to work to earn your vittles. Unions complain about prison labor, but it's really a way to defray a tiny fraction of the cost of housing criminals while keeping them too tired to make trouble.
Nah, I think I would buy them all train tickets to Brussels and let ground zero of the EU deal with it.
“For two days, a group of about 40 asylum-seekers staying at a refugee centre in the Veneto province of Belluno refused to eat the “pasta with tomato sauce, bread and eggs” meals they were given and called to be fed food from their own countries, Libero Quotidiano reported. “
Three guesses as to where you can find food from your local countries...
Send Those Ungrateful A$$H*LES back where they came from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Italians would have to try really hard to make Italian food bland and unappetizing (unless we are talking Piedmontese..)”
Not taking the side of these ungrateful layabout complainers, but no matter how “good” the local food is (Thailand, for example), I get very sick and tired of the food after a few weeks in just about every country I travel to. I live in a fairly small city in the scheme of things, but there is restaurants literally from all over the earth here, and there are great asian and mexican markets to obtain unique ingredients to make almost anything. In most of the rest of the world, you have to be in a pretty large city to even remotely have the diversity of food the average american town has.
Feed them fruit bats and monkey meat. Seal up the detention center and everything should be quiet in a month or so.
I guess going back to their own country is not something they consider? Go home.
The best meal I ever had was in the Piemonte! Every course featured truffles! ;)
One of two old ethnic jokes there.
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