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Riots in the southern region of Calabria exposed deep conflicts over race and immigration in Italy. A Jan. 7 attack on African residents sparked clashes in the town of Rosarno that left more than 50 people hurt, including migrant workers, native Italians and police. Opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani blamed the melee on "Mafia, exploitation, xenophobia and racism," while Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Italians had been too tolerant of illegal immigration. Hundreds of immigrants were evacuated and more than 10 suspected mafiosi arrested...
Berlusconi is now the recipient of bipartisan sympathy. Democratic party leader Pierluigi Bersani visited Berlusconi at the hospital on Monday, while Ezio Mauro, editor of La Repubblica, which has been hounding Berlusconi even more than usual in recent months, declared in an editorial that there is no space to justify any act of violence: "First because it is so grave in itself, and also because it could lead to a tragic season that we have already experienced in the worst years of our life," a clear reference to the ideological terrorism that left hundreds dead in Italy in the 1970s...
...widely accepted by Italians as a cultural as well as religious symbol. The decision in Strasbourg was swiftly condemned by most of Italy's political establishment, from the divorced and famously loose-living Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to the center-left leader and onetime Communist Party member Pier Luigi Bersani, who called the ruling an example of "good sense as victim of legalities...
...recent shameful behavior of our politicians, and by the end of the article, I felt very embarrassed. So this is the way the world sees us! Yet I would really like to put in a word for a politician who is trying to do his best: Pier Luigi Bersani is striving to put an end to some of the most striking anomalies in the wasteland of the government. Unfortunately, he is more and more alone in his quest. Roberta Fazzi, MOTRONI, ITALY...
...recent shameful behavior of our politicians, and by the end of the article, I felt very embarrassed. So this is the way the world sees us! Yet I would really like to put in a word for a politician who is trying to do his best: Pier Luigi Bersani is striving to put an end to some of the most striking anomalies in the wasteland of the government. Unfortunately, he is more and more alone in his quest. Roberta Fazzi, Motroni, Italy...