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Between last Thursday and y'day, once again, racism in Italy has been leading the int'l headlines...

Racist Attack - Migrants' Protest - Racist Pogrom

Italian authorities/cops and citizens expelled more than 1,000 migrant workers from Rosarno

Last Saturday(1.09): Between 1,000 (according to today's German 'left-alternative' daily TAZ) and 2,000 (Berliner Zeitung, 1.11) immigrants were expelled, resp. deported from the southern Italian town Rosarno after hundreds of racist residents violently attacked African migrant farm workers (*).

Locals applauded and cheered as buses with police escorts left, taking migrant workers from Rosarno to the towns of Crotone, 170 kilometres away, and Bari, around 400 kilometres to the northeast...

Last Thursday: Migrant workers in Rosarno protested against racial attacks...

...and inhuman 'living' and working conditions

But after they resisted the attacks by hundreds of (racist)residents...

...they were confronted with the 'state authority'...

...arrested and deported...

...to 'immigration centers'

* Related, resp. background articles:
☞ Rosarno: Racist attack provokes riot... (NoBordersBrighton, 1.08) 
☞ Revolt in Rosarno - immigrants rise up (IMC UK, 1.09) 
☞ Italians cheer as police deport African migrants (Observer, 1.10) 
☞ Pope urges Italy to respect migrants (BBC, 1.10)