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Italian refugees protest against 'monotonous' Italian food
The Local (Italy) ^ | 27 Aug 2014 12:24 GMT+02:00

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.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Maybe that Schengen Agreement wasn’t such a great idea after all.


21 posted on 08/27/2014 4:03:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dsrtsage

They should have thought about that before leaving their home countries.


22 posted on 08/27/2014 4:04:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DeaconBenjamin
France stops all Italian trains carrying north African immigrants
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8457138/France-stops-all-Italian-trains-carrying-north-African-immigrants.html


23 posted on 08/27/2014 4:13:42 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
I went through the recently-released annual report of Frontex, the EU border agency. They appendix a mass of interesting statistics, but notably, nothing about religion. That would not be PC. Extrapolating from origin data, however, the admitted refugee claimants were predominately Muslim. "Visa-free immigrants" who were either turned back at the border or subsequently "voluntarily returned" were from predominately Christian or Hindu countries such as Russia, the Ukraine and India. "Forcible returns" were predominately from Muslim countries.

Some people are just better, more persistent liars.

24 posted on 08/27/2014 4:17:43 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: DeaconBenjamin
French police send immigrants back to Italy
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140702/french-police-send-immigrants-back-to-italy


25 posted on 08/27/2014 4:22:46 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

26 posted on 08/27/2014 4:27:39 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: skeeter
"how much more"

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.

27 posted on 08/27/2014 4:28:23 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: driftless2
As long as there are liberals, there will be situations like this.

Or Catholics, the Church is real big on letting them all in.

28 posted on 08/27/2014 4:31:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: skeeter
How much more of this crap will the west be forced to tolerate until they stop the insanity.

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.

29 posted on 08/27/2014 4:38:25 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

They could send them to California. Jerry Brown says everyone is welcome here.


30 posted on 08/27/2014 4:48:04 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!)
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To: gaijin

“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.


31 posted on 08/27/2014 5:05:40 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Zhang Fei

My immigrant grandparents ate polenta, macaroni, and tomato sauce morning, noon and night for decades.


32 posted on 08/27/2014 5:21:45 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: informavoracious
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.

33 posted on 08/27/2014 5:51:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Who would prefer authentic Italian pasta and tomato sauce above raw termites and hot cattle blood mixed with curdled milk?

Yummie !


34 posted on 08/27/2014 6:38:01 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Democrats love poor blacks - that's why they keep them on the Plantation)
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To: colorado tanker
They must not know what this stuff is.

Tell 'em the one on the right is for itchy eyes.

35 posted on 08/27/2014 7:16:21 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Zhang Fei

Occasionally they would shoot big fat crows for meat,


36 posted on 08/27/2014 8:32:43 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

why would you come to Italy as a begger and expect anything else besides pasta?


37 posted on 08/27/2014 10:59:19 PM PDT by blueplum
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