The politics of fear return to Italy

The politics of fear return to Italy – Times Online

Immigrants are under attack from the resurgent Right – and even from vigilante mobs Italy: Italian Carabinieri raid a Romanian Gypsy camp in a Roman suburb.Is Italy succumbing to a wave of racism and xenophobia under its new centre-right Government? To Senada Salkanovic it looks that way: as she cuddles her daughter Brenda, 7, on the step of her shack at a Gypsy camp on Via Casilina, on the eastern outskirts of Rome, she wonders where she and her six children will go when the bulldozers arrive. The rubbish-strewn camp, consisting of wood and corrugated-iron cabins and dilapidated caravans, sits next to a disused airfield and is due for demolition as part of a new crackdown on illegal immigration and crime. Already nearly 40 huts have been dismantled, and 150 of the camp’s 800 inhabitants have left. “Where are we supposed to go?” asks Senada, who came to Italy from the former Yugoslavia 20 years ago. Her makeshift home, equipped with cupboards, a sink and a stove, is neat and well kept, in contrast to the dusty squalor outside. “They say we are all thieves, but I work as a cleaner.”

Neo-Nazis Kill Uzbek Couple in Moscow

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Neo-Nazis Kill Uzbek Couple in Moscow

A May 7 murder of an Uzbek couple in Moscow was the work of neo-Nazis, the May 22, 2008 edition of the national daily Moskovsky Komsomolets reported. Matlyuba Axkhemtova, age 42, and her husband Ukhtam Rofeev, age 47, were found dead on Konstantinov Street. Both were manual laborers who met after work to walk home together. Their killers–ages 17 and 19–stabbed them to death.

Riga Pride once again threatened

Riga Pride once again threatened — Queer Lesbian Gay Election News — Gay.com

Latvian nationalist groups have issued a joint statement stating that if a gay Pride event occurs this weekend in the capital, Riga, violent protests may ensue. The event is scheduled for Saturday at the 11th November Embankment, where a key battle for Latvian independence was fought. „It is completely unacceptable to us as nationalist Latvians that on May 31 of this year, one of the central symbols of Latvian statehood and national self-understanding, the 11th November Shoreline, will be used by minorities of sexual inclinations to propagate their absolutely unhealthy views and amoral way of life,“ the nationalists’ statement said. Resistance to Pride has also come from Riga’s deputy mayor, Andris Argalis, who called it „propaganda of perversion.“

siehe auch: Threat of Violence Looms Over Latvia’s Pride. Latvian nationalist groups have issued a joint statement stating that if a gay pride event occurs this weekend in the Latvian capital of Riga, it may result in violent protests. The event is scheduled for Saturday at the 11th November Embankment, where a key battle for Latvian independence was fought; Threat of violence hangs over Riga Pride. Latvian nationalist groups have issued a chilling joint statement saying that if a Pride event goes ahead this weekend it may create violent protests. The Pride march is to be held on Saturday on the 11th November Embankment, where a key battle for Latvian independence was fought. The coalition of nationalists, among them the All For Latvia! political party, issued a joint statement. All For Latvia! campaigns for „family values.“ In 2006 it won 1.48% of vote but no seats in parliament

HN: Neo-Nazi Blood and Honour website open again

HN: Neo-Nazi Blood and Honour website open again – Prague Daily Monitor – 30.05.2008

Access to the website of the Czech branch of the extremly radical neo-Nazi group, Blood and Honour, that was recently blocked by the U.S. FBI, is open again and Czech police do not know why, the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) wrote Thursday. (…) The FBI blocked access to the website because Blood and Honour is on the U.S. list of terrorist organisations and because it openly declares its support for the militant Group Combat 18 originally formed in London. However, the website is available again, HN writes.

siehe auch: FBI blocks Czech extremist website. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) blocked the website of the Czech branch of the most radical neo-Nazi group, Blood and Honour, the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) wrote Wednesday.

Petersburg Court Sentences Anti-Fascists

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Petersburg Court Sentences Anti-Fascists

A court in St. Petersburg handed down suspended sentences to six anti-fascists after finding them guilty of attacking a far-right rally two years ago, according to a May 27, 2008 report by the web site Jewish.ru. According to the verdict, in September 2006, anti-fascist activist Oleg Smirnov gathered a group of around 29 youths to attack a rally by the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), which has in recent years emerged as Russia’s leading far-right movement. The anti-fascists attacked the rally, not causing any serious injuries on the nationalists’ side, and then fled as police approached. They were detained soon afterwards.

Hate crimes charges dropped in Russia

Breaking News – JTA, Jewish & Israel News – Hate crimes charges dropped in Russia

Prosecutors in a Russian town near Moscow dropped hate crimes charges against youths who attacked a Jewish school. Police in Bryansk last December arrested one college student and three teenagers in connection with five separate attacks on a Jewish school during late October and throughout November. The youths, who are members of a neo-Nazi gang, shattered all but one of the windows of the Ohr Avner Jewish school and also shouted anti-Semitic threats to students of the school.