Posted on 08/27/2014 2:34:27 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
A protest held by refugees against “monotonous” Italian food was “excessive”, especially at a time when thousands of Italians go hungry, the president of a police organization told The Local.
For two days, a group of about 40 asylum-seekers staying at a refugee centre in the Veneto province of Belluno refused to eat the “pasta with tomato sauce, bread and eggs” meals they were given and called to be fed food from their own countries, Libero Quotidiano reported.
To reinforce their point, they blocked a street with a wooden bench, put their lunch on the ground along with bags of clothes and threatened to leave the centre in La Secca, a hamlet in Ponte nelle Alpi.
They reportedly said “we do not eat this stuff”.
The refugees, said to have been staying at the centre for the past four months, also reportedly slashed the tires of cars belonging to staff working there in protest against living conditions.
The protest, which follows similar ones at centres in Pozzallo in Sicily and Rome, was also partly sparked by “boredom”, the newspaper said, as they “do not know what to do with themselves”.
Police soon broke up the protest and the refugees resumed eating, but Antonio De Lieto, the president of Libero Sindicato di Polizia, a non-profit organization that represents staff of the state police force, told The Local that the action was “excessive”.
“There are thousands of Italians living in poverty and who aren’t even eating one meal a day, let alone two or three,” he said.
“They’re not complaining that the food isn’t good, but that it is not the food of their countries. But when you’re hosted in someone’s home, for example, you eat their food, right? It’s like on the many occasions I’ve been hosted in England, I don’t expect to eat spaghetti.”
Sam, a migrant from Gambia who has been staying at a centre on the outskirts of Rome for almost a year, told The Local that the food, which mainly consists of pasta, “is not good” and that some have started making their own meals.
“We need the diet from our country,” he said.
Sam, who paid a people smuggler €4,000 to travel to Italy, said he passes the days by travelling on buses throughout the capital.
“I don’t want to hang around the centre all day. I can’t work and even if I could, too many Italians are also looking for jobs. Once I get my documents I want to go somewhere else, maybe Germany or The Netherlands.”
Maybe that Schengen Agreement wasn’t such a great idea after all.
They should have thought about that before leaving their home countries.
Some people are just better, more persistent liars.
As long as there are liberals, there will be situations like this. I'll bet already there are Italian liberals who would have their gov. fly special missions to bring the poor, deserving immigrants their own specially cooked food. The proper solution is for the Italian authorities to take the undeserving b.....ds to the nearest dock at gunpoint and tell them to start swimming.
Or Catholics, the Church is real big on letting them all in.
The "west", especially western Europe, has been accepting immigrants of all forms for decades. Italy has a liberal immigration policy. Southern Italy is continually awash with North Africans moving north. The "west" is in the process of committing cultural and political suicide.
They could send them to California. Jerry Brown says everyone is welcome here.
“In very many prisons around the world the state imprisoning you has no obligation to feed you — relatives must coe and do that.
If they don’t it may well be bye-bye to you.”
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They should do that here.
My immigrant grandparents ate polenta, macaroni, and tomato sauce morning, noon and night for decades.
A vegan diet for decades? They were ahead of their time.
Who would prefer authentic Italian pasta and tomato sauce above raw termites and hot cattle blood mixed with curdled milk?
Yummie !
Tell 'em the one on the right is for itchy eyes.
Occasionally they would shoot big fat crows for meat,
why would you come to Italy as a begger and expect anything else besides pasta?
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