Violence and harassment in Italy
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Verona: Trial of Northern League anti-Gypsy campaigners
The trial has begun of six members of the Northern League who are charged with racial hatred.
4 May 2004 (179 words)
Fire at League headquarters in Trieste
A fire damaged the offices in Trieste of the Northern League in what may have been an arson attack.
14 April 2004 (53 words)
Milan Roma centre attacked
On 30 December, neo-Nazis attacked and destroyed part of the offices of the Romani organisation, Opera Nomadi, in Milan.
1 January 2004 (28 words)
Verona: Northern League accused of inciting racial hatred
Six leading Verona NL members, including Flavio Tosi, a city and regional council member and former provincial secretary of the NL, are facing a trial for a campaign they ran in 2001 to 'kick gypsies out of Verona'.
23 October 2003 (63 words)
Rome: far-Right Lazio 'Ultro' accused of attempted murder
A far-Right Lazio supporter, who has been accused of attempted murder of a 31-year-old Moroccan man, who has been in a coma since October 2002 after being hit in the head and body in Rome, has, because of plea-bargaining been sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment.
27 September 2003 (80 words)
Far-Right violence in Italy
Fascists kill opponent in Milan gang attack
17 March 2003 (360 words)
History book casts Christians as victims of Islam
Antonio Socci, the author of a new book which claims that over the centuries Christians have been the victims of worldwide persecution by Muslims, is part of a rightwing revisionist effort to distort history, say his critics.
1 August 2002 (302 words)
Anti-Muslim diatribe proves bestseller
An Italian war correspondent, previously viewed as the liberal conscience of the nation, has, in the wake of September 11, written an anti-Muslim diatribe which has proved to be a bestseller in Italy, Spain and has been translated into French.
1 August 2002 (305 words)
Verona Focus on racism and the far-Right
Why did the fascist FN launch its general election campaign in Verona, which has a large immigrant community and is known for its wealth and its Catholicism?
1 January 2002 (359 words)
Violence linked to Forza Nuova
When police raided the homes in Isola, near Bergamo of six youths suspected of six separate ambush attacks on black people they found swastikas, racist leaflets and an FN membership card.
1 January 2002 (66 words)
Trieste Roma boy savagely beaten by skinheads
A 9-year-old Roma boy was savagely beaten by skinheads in the Siana neighbourhood of Trieste for no other reason than his ethnicity.
1 January 2002 (120 words)
Rome racial 'torture' of Sri Lankan boy
Racial abuse against the 12-year-old son of immigrants from Sri Lanka at the Sandro Pertini middle school in Montesacro, a neighbourhood not far from the centre of Rome, was so bad as to constitute 'torture' concludes Il Piccolo.
1 January 2002 (217 words)
Piemonte family murder feud blamed on immigrants
Once again, press and politicians launched an immediate attack on immigrants suspected of a double murder, only to find out the next day that a member of the family had confessed to the murders.
1 January 2002 (186 words)
Racist attacks in Veneto increase
An immigrants' association in Veneto, north-east Italy, has spoken of a steady increase in racist attacks and warned that places previously considered safe are now being affected.
1 May 1998 (76 words)
Abdellah Doumi: arrest warrants issued
Arrests warrants have been issued for 11 men wanted in connection with the murder of Abdellah Doumi, who drowned in the river Po on 19 July when his assailants prevented him from climbing up to the bank for safety.
1 February 1998 (71 words)
Undocumented woman killed by monk
In Bergamo, an Italian monk killed a non-European woman without a resident's permit after she allegedly threatened him.
1 February 1998 (28 words)
Racist attacks
Rome: Moroccan seriously injured in skinhead attack
1 February 1998 (603 words)
Tension mounts in Sicily
Immigrants in Gela, Sicily, are said to be in a state of panic after a series of racist incidents.
1 March 1997 (85 words)
Racist attacks
Rome
1 April 1995 (251 words)
Campaigns against 'nomads' sweep across Italy
Florence
1 March 1995 (296 words)
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