Masked Italian raiders trash immigrant stores: report
Italian police today condemned audacious daylight attacks on businesses run by Bangladeshi and Indian immigrants in Rome by masked raiders armed with crowbars, the ANSA news agency reported.
By PTI |
ROME: Italian police today condemned audacious daylight attacks on businesses run by Bangladeshi and Indian immigrants in Rome by masked raiders armed with crowbars, the ANSA news agency reported.
Two shops and a call centre in Rome's outlying Pigneto area, were attacked by around 20 hooded people yesterday, with one of the aggressors also sporting a swastika, according to a witness cited in press reports.
The attackers hurled racial abuse on the shopowners and asked them to return home, reports said.
The attacks did not "have a political connotation or origin but were symptomatic of strong intolerance," the Rome police said.
They said investigators working on the theory that was "a retaliatory act by a group of Italian citizens, probably from the same district, (angered by) the theft of a wallet."
Political figures from right and left expressed their outrage, with the new right-wing mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, telling Sky TG24 news channel that "whatever the motivation behind this aggression, it must be roundly condemned."
Alemanno, described as a former neo-fascist, added that the only way to prevent this was to apply greater controls on immigration, an issue already high on the country's agenda and central to an April general election.
Two shops and a call centre in Rome's outlying Pigneto area, were attacked by around 20 hooded people yesterday, with one of the aggressors also sporting a swastika, according to a witness cited in press reports.
The attackers hurled racial abuse on the shopowners and asked them to return home, reports said.
The attacks did not "have a political connotation or origin but were symptomatic of strong intolerance," the Rome police said.
They said investigators working on the theory that was "a retaliatory act by a group of Italian citizens, probably from the same district, (angered by) the theft of a wallet."
Political figures from right and left expressed their outrage, with the new right-wing mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, telling Sky TG24 news channel that "whatever the motivation behind this aggression, it must be roundly condemned."
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Alemanno, described as a former neo-fascist, added that the only way to prevent this was to apply greater controls on immigration, an issue already high on the country's agenda and central to an April general election.
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