Posted on 01/08/2010 9:27:57 AM PST by traumer
Source: Reuters * Worst episode of Italian racial unrest in years
* Cars burned, road blocked, some 15 immigrants arrested
* Southern town still tense, thousands protest
(Recasts, changes dateline from ROME, adds violence, arrests)
By Ilario Filippone
ROSARNO, Italy, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Thousands of immigrants protested against racism in a southern Italian town on Friday, after a night of rioting that was sparked by an attack on African farm workers by a gang of white youths.
In one of Italy's worst episodes of racial unrest in years, dozens of Africans in Rosarno, in the Calabria region, smashed car windows with steel bars and stones and set cars and rubbish bins on fire late into Thursday night.
Police said at least one car was attacked while passengers were inside -- several of whom were injured.
The immigrants, who also blocked a road, clashed with police in riot gear. Some 15 were arrested and 20 were injured.
The incidents took place after white youths in a car fired air rifles at a group of African immigrants returning from work on farms, injuring two of them.
On Friday morning some 2,000 immigrants demonstrated in front of the town hall to protest against what they said was racist treatment by many locals. Some shouted "we are not animals" and carried signs reading "Italians here are racist".
Scattered acts of vandalism by immigrants continued on Friday morning as some smashed store windows.
Schools were ordered closed as tensions remained high. One white resident fired live ammunition in the air from a terrace, local media reported.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni ordered more police into the area and set up a task force to look at what caused the violence.
A smaller riot by immigrants broke out near Naples in September 2008.
Maroni, from the far-right Northern League party that is a junior partner in Silvio Berlusconi's government, sparked controversy when he said one of the causes of the violence was that illegal immigration had been "tolerated all these years".
Opposition leader Pierluigi Bersani accused Maroni of raising tension in the area.
"Maroni is passing the buck ... we have to go to the roots of the problem: Mafia, exploitation, xenophobia and racism," Bersani said.
Immigrants work in the area as day labourers picking fruit and vegetables. Some 1,500 live in squalid conditions in abandoned factories with no running water or electricity and human rights groups say they are exploited by organised crime.
Calabrian regional governor Agazio Loiero said while the action of the immigrants was totally unjustified, he acknowledged there had been "a strong provocation".
Italy has taken a hard line against illegal immigration and has moved to stem a tide of boatloads of immigrants who try to arrive on its southern shores from Africa. Some boats have been turned back on the open seas.
“Africans” hey?
MY guess is North African Muslims.
You don’t ‘injure’ them; you eliminate them.
You let them in. Deal with it. When will the world learn???
Indeed not, they are far worse than animals.
Perhaps, but you are not Italian citizens, either. So, deal with it, stop whining or go back from whence you came.
Yup.....just like we do with our southern border. Italy will most likely handle this better than we do. They’ll call out their military if they have to. We just let them have access to our court system.
Drive Hannibal back into the sea.
Coming to a barrio near you!
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We need to start acting like we have a heritage worth preserving.
No, that doesn't mean beating up immigrants, by the way (if thats indeed what really happened). But 'love it or we'll make you leave it' is a perfectly legitimate response.
That would be exactly right.
Nice to see the Italians enjoying the colorful, diverse, multicultural society their Overlords have created for them.
they cry Italians are racist and yet would they do this in their own country if Christians or another race was attacked.
No course not, I hope the Italians don’t go soft over this and say enough is enough, you come here and the call us this and that and we’re supposed to still give you a job and freebies.
These people move into an area, and the smash areas up like they do in France almost every weekend and then think that the natives will say OK we love you now.
Maybe a visit to these folks who hire these workers is needed, no job no need to stay
while I love cultures I also love ours
“MY guess is North African Muslims.”
Armada Nacional de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) 12/31/09
More Africans being smuggled
Seventy-one Africans, from Somalia and Eritrea, were found by Colombian Coast Guard personnel aboard a launch that had broken down near Isla Fuerte, off Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The 71 had entered Colombia illegally and were reportedly en route to Central America. The crew had previously abandoned the craft, presumably due to mechanical problems.
http://m3report.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/the-latin-states-of-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+wordpress/m3report+(M3+Report)
Oh, just give the poor ‘immigrants’ amnesty or anything else they demand...that will calm them down....according to John McCain.
According to John McCain, THIS is the reason we need AMNESTY.
In other words, if we don’t give illegal alien squatters everything they want, they will turn on us. As if they haven’t already.
-—Recently this headline, “Obama Warns Of ‘Quiet Riot’ Among Blacks”, got some conservatives upset. Is that really so much worse than McCain telling us there will be civil unrest among Illegal aliens if his ‘comprehensive’ reform wasn’t passed?
John McCain: no amnesty for illegal aliens could lead to France-style riots
...The man wasn’t satisfied with McCain’s answer. He asked McCain why the U.S. couldn’t execute large-scale deportations, as he had heard they did in France and other countries. The question seemed to pique McCain.
“In case you hadn’t noticed, the thousands of people who have been relegated to ghettos have risen up and burned cars in France,” McCain said. “They’ve got huge problems in France. They have tremendous problems. The police can’t even go into certain areas in the suburbs of Paris. I don’t want that in the suburbs of America.”
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=McCain+home
The media never says black youth or muslim youth but they say white youth. That racist.
Gee, how cruel of those Italians to hold guns to those people’s heads, take them away from the paradise they came from, and force them to immigrate to such a mean, unfair country.
“John McCain: no amnesty for illegal aliens could lead to France-style riots”
France style riots could lead to MASSIVE CITIZEN RETALIATION.
We ain’t the French and, God bless the Second Amendment, we can fight back.
So you're doing exactly what with your Second Amendment rights against tens of millions of illegals killing, robbing, drunk-driving, raping, gang-banging, drug-dealing, benefit-sucking, identity-stealing, anchor baby-spawning, etc. their way through America right NOW? Well? Get to it, then!
As the first Moltke knew - timing is everything.
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