To: odin@gate.net
Subject:
Subject: ITALY RACISM (S) By PEGGY POLK/ ROME
DATE=6/7/94
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE= ITALY RACISM (S)
BYLINE= PEGGY POLK
DATELINE= ROME
INTRO: THE VATICAN HAS EXPRESSED ALARM OVER THE RISE OF RACISM
IN ITALY. AS PEGGY POLK REPORTS, THE VATICAN NEWSPAPER CITED TWO
ATTACKS AGAINST AFRICANS IN ROME ON SUNDAY AND SAID THAT EVEN
MORE DISCONCERTING WAS THE SUPPORT SHOWN FOR THE ATTACKERS.
TEXT: THE VATICAN JOINED IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS GROUPS IN CONDEMNING
THE ATTACKS AGAINST TWO SENEGALESE STREET VENDORS IN A MAIN METRO
SUBWAY STATION AND A CONGOLESE STUDENT ON A SUBURBAN TRAIN.
THREE YOUTHS WITH A RECORD OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCE WERE ARRESTED FOR
THE METRO ATTACK AND NINE SKINHEADS WERE ARRESTED FOR THE ATTACK
AGAINST THE STUDENT. POLICE REPORTEDLY WERE JEERED AND PELTED
WITH RUBBISH WHEN THEY ARRESTED THE SKINHEADS IN A NEIGHBORHOOD
ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ROME. LOCAL YOUTHS TOLD TELEVISION
INTERVIEWERS THEY BACKED THE ATTACKERS.
THE VATICAN NEWSPAPER L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO CALLED THE ATTACKS
"WORRYING EPISODES OF RACIST VIOLENCE," BUT SAID IT WAS "EVEN
MORE DISCONCERTING" THAT YOUNG PEOPLE SAID THE ATTACKERS HAD
"DONE THE RIGHT THING."
THE NEWSPAPER CALLED THIS "AN ALARMING SIGNAL, REVEALING A
XENOPHOBIC MENTALITY" THAT "IT WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO
UNDERESTIMATE."
AN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS GROUP, THE FORUM FOR THE FOREIGN COMMUNITY IN
ITALY, SAID THERE IS AN AVERAGE OF ONE RACIST ATTACK EVERY DAY
AGAINST ITALY'S ESTIMATED ONE-AND-ONE-HALF-MILLION IMMIGRANTS.
(SIGNED)
NEB/PP/MH/JWH
07-Jun-94 9:47 AM EDT (1347 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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