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| Ring of steel divides Padua |
| 2006-09-29 |
| The shape of things to come. The Agnelli estate in Padua is a cluster of crumbling high-rise flats. It was built in the 1980s to house the city's considerable student population. These days it is home to several hundred African immigrants. It has a reputation for crime, drugs and prostitution, and is a constant source of angry complaints from local Italian residents. This summer, after riots between opposing gangs, the left-leaning mayor of Padua took a drastic decision to seal off the estate - with a metal wall. It is 85m (290ft) long, 3m (10ft) high and it stretches along one side of the estate. "It's not an instrument of segregation," said Mayor Flavio Zanonato. "We just want to limit the activity of the drug pushers here. This isn't a wall in Palestine. It's just something that's harder for drug dealers to jump over." More at the Link |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #6 Condemn the place. Level it. Deport these ingrates. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-09-29 15:25 |
| #5 Immigration is a touchy issue in the Veneto region, which is one of the main electoral strongholds of the anti-immigration Northern League party. "Some people like to forget what jobs these immigrants are doing in our community," said Daniela. "They work in our factories, they build our houses, and they nurse our old people. They do many of the jobs Italians don't want to do. Hmmmmmm...where have I heard that mantra before? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-29 12:49 |
| #4 "We just want to limit the activity of the drug pushers here. This isn't a wall in Palestine. It's just something that's harder for drug dealers to jump over." Here's an idea, Flavio... Why don't you arrest the bastards and throw them in jail? Or would that screw up the Midnight basketball league? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-29 12:46 |
| #3 A wall. What a concept. Maybe there are some other places that could use a wall. Israel? Mexican border? |
| Posted by: DoDo 2006-09-29 12:43 |
| #2 During the outbreak of black plague in Italy, the Duke of Milan issued a decree that any household which demonstrated the symptoms of the disease was to be sealed along with all its inhabitants. It was done. It, by todayÂ’s standards, was cruel. However, given medical knowledge available then, it was a solution which as it turned out, worked. Milan remained an island of health compared to the surrounding geography. A quarter of Europe would die in the plague as it burned across the land. |
| Posted by: Cheath Ununter6466 2006-09-29 08:35 |
| #1 It's ok, it says right in the article he's "left-leaning". |
| Posted by: Glulet Unineting6551 2006-09-29 07:20 |