Violence broke out in southern Italy yesterday as hundreds of migrant workers, most of them Africans, went on a rampage in retaliation to two of their number being shot and three more beaten with iron bars by white youths.
Authorities reporting at least 37 were wounded in the ensuing clashes, including 18 police officers and five migrants, as the violence reached its second day in the coastal town of Rosarno in Calabria.
The riots in the region were sparked off when when two migrants were wounded by pellet fire two days ago, starting the cycle of violence, said a top police official, Renato Cortese, in the regional capital.
The simmering racial tension was then exacerbated when two more migrants were shot in the same location, an unoccupied factory which serves as sleeping quarters for African workers in the hamlet of Laureana di Borrello 6 miles from Rosarno.
In retaliation, the immigrant farm labourers went on a rampage and fought pitched battles with the police.
Police reinforcements were being sent in the next hours, likely during the night, with the exact number still being decided, the Interior Ministry said.
Officials at Santa Maria degli Ungheresi Hospital in the nearby town of Polistena said one of the migrants beaten by metal rods had surgery for a kidney injury and another was treated for an eye socket injury, and the third wounded in the attack was taken to another hospital for brain surgery.
The rioting began after Thursday’s shooting, in which two men – one from Nigeria, the other from Togo – were lightly injured.
The foreigners angrily blamed that shooting on racism, and groups of protesters stoned police, attacked residents and smashed shop windows and cars.
Friday, angry migrants, mostly from African nations, some armed with metal bars or wooden sticks, scuffled with police and residents in the streets of Rosarno.
Other residents were holed up in their homes, state radio reported, and schools and shops were shuttered.
Cortese said of the situation in Rosarno: ‘I’d say you could step out and buy some bread only because you have to eat, but if I had to choose I wouldn’t go out for an evening stroll.’
Police said late Friday evening that at least 37 people had been injured, including the five migrants, 14 residents and 18 police officers.
A young mother with a bruise under an eye and a bandage on the side of her head, told state TV a group of migrants started smashing her car.
The woman said that, fearful for the safety of her small children, she managed to drive about two meters before her attackers pushed her car into a wall.
Terrified, she fled with her family, and the assailants set her car afire, she said.
With television cameras rolling in the streets, some residents shouted that they wanted the migrants to leave the town.
An exact number of arrests was not available because the clashes were continuing, although they were ‘under control’, said the paramilitary Carabinieri police press office.
Earlier, the Interior Ministry said seven migrants had been arrested.
The Italians arrested included one who tried to hit a migrant with a bulldozer as the rioters headed toward the town’s center.
Another Italian resident was taken into custody after trying to hit a migrant with a car, the Italian news agency ANSA reported from Rosarno, a town of 15,000 people.
Agazio Loiero, the governor of the Calabria region, told Sky TV said that the violence was ‘unacceptable’ but the migrants had been ‘strongly provoked’.
Thousands of migrants move to the area each year to help with the seasonal fruit harvest.
Living in improvised dormitories, including abandoned factories and huts, they earn as little as £18 in a dawn-to-dusk work day. Often without work permits, they do jobs many Italians shun, despite chronic underemployment in the poorly developed south.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni convened a special meeting to discuss the rioting. Afterward, the ministry created a task force to deal with the violence and ‘aspects linked to the exploitation of illegal labor and health care’ for the migrants.
Calabria also is the base of the international crime syndicate called ‘Ndrangheta.
The unrest follows a recent decision by the Italian authorities to increase police numbers in Reggio Calabria after a weekend bomb blast damaged a courthouse in what was seen as a move by the mob to intimidate magistrates.
The combination of ethnic strife and organized crime has sparked violence before among migrant communities in southern Italy. In 2008, migrants rioted in the Naples area after six Ghanians were murdered in a gangland-style shooting blamed on the local Camorra crime syndicate.
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This, plan of masons
European races, especially black people can mix, want to destroy our culture.
thus, a society with no culture, more easily managed.
I’m not racist.
but I am opposed immigrations.
Send those blacks back to Africa and make those young white youths along with any able body adults do the harvesting of the produce like their Italian ancestors did.This is how Italy gets rid of immigrant problems.
Multiracial societies don’t work.
Egypt tried it = Fail
Greece tried it = Fail
Rome tried it = Fail
South Africa tried it = Fail
Serbia tried it = Fail
UK tried it = Fail
US triing it = Failing…
Stop the Hate = Separate
Who the fuck do those blacks even think they are. Go back to Africa and fix your own GOD DAMN country – oh you are too stupid do that so you have to leach off of White Society.
Yeah. They just love telling white South Africans and Zimbabweans to f*** off because Africa is for Africans.
If they don’t they get brutally tortured to death. The cowards love to wait until you’re asleep to gang up on you too.
So then Europe is for Europeans. They’ve got Africa.
These photos might as well have been taken in SA, we see that all the time. That one sticking his finger in the air and arguing with that woman is exactly the attitude they have in SA. Burning cars and tyres in the streets, ripping out road signs… South Africa.
What can I say. Now you know what whites in SA had to deal with and why there was segregation in the first place. Kick out these bastards. Rather let the white South Africans come back to Europe to make a contribution there, because in Africa it’s not wanted. Of course they then want to go to Europe to take what isn’t theirs.
It’s all so messed up. They should be kicked out and then Africa should be quarantined.
Africans invading Italy is Racism.
End racism, send them back to there own home countries.
Fix the problem that racist globalist started.
I don’t HATE blacks because of their skin color. I HATE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR GOD DAMN FREAKING ATTITUDE. WHY CAN’T THEY FIX THEIR OWN NATIONS & STOP TRYING TO STEAL & RAPE FROM WHITE NATIONS!
Now Italians know what we Americans have to put up with!!!! Europe condemned the US for New Orleans, bu all those black either wanted to stay so they could steal , or plain refused to leave before the hurricane. Blacks are a drain on white governments, send them back to Africa!!!
Your post is absolutely correct = steal and loot! Also-Hurricane Katrina was a disaster bc BLACKS in power in New Orleans – STOLE all Emergency Gasoline reserves for school buses,public transportation, fire dept, Police dept – that immobilized the city. The Blacks in power made use of Emergency gas reserves for their own personal use – prior to hurricane – and caused the problems their “own” people were suffering during Katrina.
Corruptocrats are now being indicted for looting City coffers – misappropriating Katrina donation$, vehicles donated, food donations = thefts, bribery, extortion, kick-backs -Fraud and racketeering – including Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin. Other black officials pled guilty for falsifying loan applications for FEMA and SBA – or looting non-profit organizations.
btw,There were more “white” people who died in the Hurricane disaster of Katrina – than blacks.
Spike Lee did not care about that bc he had to niggerize his documentary – to re-write history. Just about “every” city official who walked the red carpet for his movie – are now indicted – for theft and fraud, racketeering – in the exploitation of the inner city poor, blacks and minorities. Spike Lee would not want to do a follow-up to his bogus documentary – although he would have a captive audience – since most of the blacks in power then – are now serving PRISON time.
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The Muslims are not to be blamed, we should leave them alone and deal with the real problem.
Damn muslims! This is exactly why they should be exterminated like any other cockroach!
Where they forced to go to Italy? Who made them go? If no one did, they don’t have the right to do what they are doing. And can’t Italian natives protect their homes against this violence? why do they have to throw always the race card? it doesn’t work one way..
Send them all to Haiti!
LOL excellent! :)
Haiti is of course a great example. They took over, slaughtered all the whites in 1804 in the most brutal and bloody ways and look where they are today. If they are not kicked out. Europe will become Haiti.
You can take them out of Africa but you can just never take Africa out of them.
I think Haitians should also be sent back to Africa. They don’t belong in Haiti. Africa is for Africans remember? They love saying that.
“racism”?! am I supposed to tolerate all the shit comming out of these less intelligent creatures,with animalic reasoning and behaviour?
there are f*** people in eastern europe who work as hard as these animals claim to and do not get £18/day,but far less and keep paying the bills.they save money to send to africa,the land of….eternal war.
well,that’s the result of the Kabal teachings of the Bilderberg and alike…