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STATE RACISM IN THE EU

When the European Union(EU) isn't able to repel potential immigrants from the so-called "Third World" to reach its soil (every year THOUSANDS of potential immigrants are dying in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic on their way to flee poverty, civil war, any kind of discrimination.., just for to reach the coasts of the EU - the "empire of freedom and prosperity") the rulers in the EU search for other ways to "solve the problem of migration by the poor". For example to lock up immigrants in Ghettos..

Here is one of the latest examples for the inhumanity of EU's "immigration" policy:

Ring of steel locks in immigrants (Times, 8.11)

A city famed for its beauty has turned to an ugly answer to drugs and violence
 
 
PADUA in Italy is renowned for its ancient university and medieval frescoes by Giotto. Yesterday, however, it acquired a less attractive claim to fame: a steel wall, 84m long and 3m high, blocking off a run-down housing estate with a high immigrant population and a reputation for drugs, violence and prostitution.

The wall was erected overnight by the local council around a cluster of run-down apartment blocks housing 1,500 people that is known as the Padua Bronx. A police checkpoint has been set up to control access to and from the estate. The council said that the wall had cost €80,000.

Some reports said, however, that the operation — including the installation of CCTV — costs as much as €270,000. Italian newspapers said that “a new Berlin Wall has gone up — this time in the heart of Italy”.

Il Giornale compared the Padua wall to the fence dividing Israel from the West Bank. La Repubblica ran the headline: “Padua is divided in two.”

Police said that the flats — on what is officially the Serenissima (Most Serene) estate — had once been occupied by students, but over the past decade had been taken over by immigrants from Africa, including the Maghreb, Asia and Eastern Europe. “Many of them are illegal immigrants,” a police spokesman said. “There is a serious drugs problem .”

Police raided several flats at dawn yesterday, arresting ten clandestini (illegal immigrants) and seizing hundreds of grammes of cocaine. Last month police used teargas to quell street fighting between nearly 200 Nigerians and Moroccans, and confiscated weapons including machetes and meat cleavers.

The wall was condemned by Giancarlo Galan, the centre-right President of the Veneto Region, as a “policy of despair”. He said that it amounted to an admission of failure by Padua’s centre-left council.

Signor Zanonato said that he preferred “enclosure” to wall. “People are comparing us to Berlin, or even Beirut,” he said. “But there are 20,000 immigrants in Padua. My task is to do what is possible to integrate them. But this enclosure was requested by residents near the estate, to stop drug dealing.”

An Italian voice about this case you can read here:

PADUA: A 3M "WALL" AROUND VIA ANELL

(Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, 8.09)

Four millimetre thick steel panels are being used to construct a 80m long "wall" three metres high to fence off the entire Serenissima complex on Via Anelli in order to deny people wishing to buy or sell drugs access to the "Paduan Bronx". Even though the aim is different, a "wall" is being built in Padua just like post-war Berlin. This time, however, it is the locals who are supporting the project, hoping for greater peace. Access to the complex will be restricted to its residents and a police checkpoint will be installed at the entrance. In the last few weeks, fighting was taking place at the complex for the control of the drug racket, but was thwarted by the Police and the Carabinieri. The wall will have new security video cameras installed for surveillance and should stop the easy escape of the criminals that are putting life in the entire neighbourhood at risk. In the meantime, police operations continue. At dawn, some houses were searched and over 40 people were registered, about ten of whom are being subject to expatriation procedures by the Police. The operation has also confiscated hundreds of grammes of cocaine.

Residents there, according to a report of the German state broadcasting station ZDF, called it "the Guantanamo of Italy... a prison for immigrants".

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But actually this kind of state policy isn't so new in Europe, not really.

Of course everyone knows about the ghettos for Jews in the (by the Germans) occupied territories during WWII!?

After the collapse of the East Block in cities of the Czech Republic, for example, like in Usti nad Laben(in the north, near the German border) the municipalities ordered to build walls around residential quarters of local Roma communities(a.k.a. Gypsies, a national minority in the most of the east European countries).

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BTW.. it's very interesting that only a few bourgeois European media were reporting about the case of the Padua Wall.  

German f.. disgusting report about the Padua Wall (ZDF, 8.16)