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How Italy's migrant model town Riace veered far-right
The colourful welcoming signs for refugees are still up, but the town of Riace has swung far-right, against the migrant experiment it once championed. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
08 Jun 2019 02:11PM
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RIACE, Italy: The sign reading "Riace, land of welcome" still hangs in the small town, but its dream of migrant integration is over after the far-right's "Italians first" election victory.
The new mayor of the one-time "global village" in southern Italy's rural Calabria elected on May 26 with the support of Matteo Salvini's anti-migrant Lega party, Antonio Trifoli, has so far left the sign up.
"We will welcome refugees again," he told AFP.
"But we can't have 500 to 600 asylum seekers in a town with 1,500 residents," said the former town policeman.
Trifoli was first on the independent "Riace reborn" list, backed by the Lega, whose supporters provided many of the 41.8 per cent of the 1,103 votes he won.
"There aren't even any more children," says Daniel, a migrant from Ghana, speaking perfect Italian. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
Until just a few years ago, the Lega was a separatist party at the other end of the country which sneeringly referred to southerners as "bumpkins" or worse.
"The problem is that we had too many migrants and we lost the spirit of openness there was initially," said Trifoli.
"A whole economic system developed with the migrants, but without making the village dynamic again... The model destroyed itself," he said.
Former mayor Domenico "Mimmo" Lucano encouraged migrants and refugees to come to the village to counter a gradual decline of inhabitants and workers and show how migrant integration could be done.
But now he is no longer even a member of the town council after his left-backed list lost in the elections, and he has been barred from the town.
Lucano is due in court next week to face charges including that he failed to put to tender a garbage collection contract that went to a migrant-linked cooperative.
The inflow of migrants was once seen as a solution to the slow decline of inhabitants in Riace and the surrounding area. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
German director Wim Wenders made a documentary in 2010 featuring the leftist mayor and Riace's refugees, but Lucano was last year placed under house arrest for allegedly setting up fake marriages to help foreign women stay in the country after their asylum applications were rejected.
The debacle came after a populist coalition formed by Salvini, the country's hardline anti-immigrant deputy prime minister who also holds the interior ministry portfolio, and Luigi Di Maio's anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) formed a government in June last year.
The shops and workshops previously occupied by migrants are now shuttered.
The village's historic streets are largely deserted, with funereal music occasionally punctuating the silence.
Colourful, multi-ethnic murals can still be seen on walls, testimony to the experiment that took place here and the hopes for migrant integration it spawned in Italy and beyond, before it failed amid alienated locals and allegations of fraud.
Over the years the town took in around 6,000 migrants, opened shops and workshops and even launched its own currency stamped with the heads of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
"ORDER AND DISCIPLINE"
"Here, we need order and discipline," said agricultural engineer Claudio Falchi, a Milan native who moved here 25 years ago.
Three years ago he became Lega leader in Riace.
"They were fighting among themselves, they didn't want the crucifix, or the creche," Falchi said of the migrants.
"It's not racism, it's just that this is our home. We welcome them and then they make problems."
'It's not racism, it's just that this is our home,' says the local Lega party head, Claudio Falchi. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
Locals are reluctant to talk about the past or discuss the predicament of the village, which, like so many in Calabria is seeing its youth leave in search of work as the elderly slowly die off.
"People wanted things to change. After 15 years of talking only about welcoming and refugees, they got tired," said mayor Trifoli.
"Taking in refugees gave Riace prestige around the world but its inhabitants lost interest."
Over the years the town took in around 6,000 migrants, opened shops and workshops and even launched its own currency stamped with the heads of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King.
But that model of tolerance and inclusion has disappeared.
"Almost everyone has gone. There aren't even any more children," said Daniel, a 37-year-old Ghanaian, in perfect Italian.
The Lega was the big winner in last month's European parliamentary elections, taking more than 34 percent of national votes.
On the southern island of Lampedusa, where many migrants arrived after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, the Lega won more than 45 percent of votes.
Source: AFP/rw
How Italy's migrant model town Riace veered far-right
The colourful welcoming signs for refugees are still up, but the town of Riace has swung far-right, against the migrant experiment it once championed. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
08 Jun 2019 02:11PM
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RIACE, Italy: The sign reading "Riace, land of welcome" still hangs in the small town, but its dream of migrant integration is over after the far-right's "Italians first" election victory.
The new mayor of the one-time "global village" in southern Italy's rural Calabria elected on May 26 with the support of Matteo Salvini's anti-migrant Lega party, Antonio Trifoli, has so far left the sign up.
"We will welcome refugees again," he told AFP.
"But we can't have 500 to 600 asylum seekers in a town with 1,500 residents," said the former town policeman.
Trifoli was first on the independent "Riace reborn" list, backed by the Lega, whose supporters provided many of the 41.8 per cent of the 1,103 votes he won.
"There aren't even any more children," says Daniel, a migrant from Ghana, speaking perfect Italian. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
Until just a few years ago, the Lega was a separatist party at the other end of the country which sneeringly referred to southerners as "bumpkins" or worse.
"The problem is that we had too many migrants and we lost the spirit of openness there was initially," said Trifoli.
"A whole economic system developed with the migrants, but without making the village dynamic again... The model destroyed itself," he said.
Former mayor Domenico "Mimmo" Lucano encouraged migrants and refugees to come to the village to counter a gradual decline of inhabitants and workers and show how migrant integration could be done.
But now he is no longer even a member of the town council after his left-backed list lost in the elections, and he has been barred from the town.
Lucano is due in court next week to face charges including that he failed to put to tender a garbage collection contract that went to a migrant-linked cooperative.
The inflow of migrants was once seen as a solution to the slow decline of inhabitants in Riace and the surrounding area. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
German director Wim Wenders made a documentary in 2010 featuring the leftist mayor and Riace's refugees, but Lucano was last year placed under house arrest for allegedly setting up fake marriages to help foreign women stay in the country after their asylum applications were rejected.
The debacle came after a populist coalition formed by Salvini, the country's hardline anti-immigrant deputy prime minister who also holds the interior ministry portfolio, and Luigi Di Maio's anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) formed a government in June last year.
The shops and workshops previously occupied by migrants are now shuttered.
The village's historic streets are largely deserted, with funereal music occasionally punctuating the silence.
Colourful, multi-ethnic murals can still be seen on walls, testimony to the experiment that took place here and the hopes for migrant integration it spawned in Italy and beyond, before it failed amid alienated locals and allegations of fraud.
Over the years the town took in around 6,000 migrants, opened shops and workshops and even launched its own currency stamped with the heads of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
"ORDER AND DISCIPLINE"
"Here, we need order and discipline," said agricultural engineer Claudio Falchi, a Milan native who moved here 25 years ago.
Three years ago he became Lega leader in Riace.
"They were fighting among themselves, they didn't want the crucifix, or the creche," Falchi said of the migrants.
"It's not racism, it's just that this is our home. We welcome them and then they make problems."
'It's not racism, it's just that this is our home,' says the local Lega party head, Claudio Falchi. (Photo: AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)
Locals are reluctant to talk about the past or discuss the predicament of the village, which, like so many in Calabria is seeing its youth leave in search of work as the elderly slowly die off.
"People wanted things to change. After 15 years of talking only about welcoming and refugees, they got tired," said mayor Trifoli.
"Taking in refugees gave Riace prestige around the world but its inhabitants lost interest."
Over the years the town took in around 6,000 migrants, opened shops and workshops and even launched its own currency stamped with the heads of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King.
But that model of tolerance and inclusion has disappeared.
"Almost everyone has gone. There aren't even any more children," said Daniel, a 37-year-old Ghanaian, in perfect Italian.
The Lega was the big winner in last month's European parliamentary elections, taking more than 34 percent of national votes.
On the southern island of Lampedusa, where many migrants arrived after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, the Lega won more than 45 percent of votes.
Source: AFP/rw
Muslim better than Christian to seek e truth. Angmoh Christian only in 5 eye BE has too much rubbish about war in the bible.
There is no peaceful coexistance story in the bible. All were anout war here and there. Even their ownself anointed ownself so call Gods do not live in peaceful coexistence with humen.
Christian Gods are also lousy engineers called themselves creators come up with poor quality and rubbish products and designs. For heaven seek make man with gold and silver but NOT from dust... so fucking cheapsake poor quality product make from dust... knnbeccb....
Then there are many types of Christian Gods where one turn into fire behind the bush when see Moses the human... then they hv their God head kenna grabbed by Issac like that orso can.... low caste God bullied by man Issac... then hv then their God destroy Soddom and Ghormarra cities burnt down nighlife karaoke, cabernets night clubs buay song human enjoy a bit of good life...
Then u hv kpkb God intevene come to Noah to tell him to rent a boat before HE floods the the earth...
Christian Gods like to play with water to kill humen. Flood here and there with water in Noah time. Flood the world water with water kill every human of Adam generations. Then forgotten to come to Noah for 100s year left Noah on the boat make Noah depressed and get drunk....
Then Chritian Gods can tulan type separate men with different languages so can fight among themselves during Noah time.
Christians Gods are the 明抢易躲 暗箭难防 type very venonous created alot of problems for humen....
Muslim God give bonus with 72 vigins (not say what virgin types 70 y.o is still virgin orso makan sia).... so go bonus given ok...
There is no peaceful coexistance story in the bible. All were anout war here and there. Even their ownself anointed ownself so call Gods do not live in peaceful coexistence with humen.
Christian Gods are also lousy engineers called themselves creators come up with poor quality and rubbish products and designs. For heaven seek make man with gold and silver but NOT from dust... so fucking cheapsake poor quality product make from dust... knnbeccb....
Then there are many types of Christian Gods where one turn into fire behind the bush when see Moses the human... then they hv their God head kenna grabbed by Issac like that orso can.... low caste God bullied by man Issac... then hv then their God destroy Soddom and Ghormarra cities burnt down nighlife karaoke, cabernets night clubs buay song human enjoy a bit of good life...
Then u hv kpkb God intevene come to Noah to tell him to rent a boat before HE floods the the earth...
Christian Gods like to play with water to kill humen. Flood here and there with water in Noah time. Flood the world water with water kill every human of Adam generations. Then forgotten to come to Noah for 100s year left Noah on the boat make Noah depressed and get drunk....
Then Chritian Gods can tulan type separate men with different languages so can fight among themselves during Noah time.
Christians Gods are the 明抢易躲 暗箭难防 type very venonous created alot of problems for humen....
Muslim God give bonus with 72 vigins (not say what virgin types 70 y.o is still virgin orso makan sia).... so go bonus given ok...
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They keep calling the sensible people the 'far right'. Anyone who doesn't want free-for-all open borders is 'far right'. Anyone who doesn't want to import hordes of third world Muslim/nigger vermins and shower them with welfare, and let them rape and kill your children is 'far right'. 
No libtards, they're just right.
Watch out for Nigel Farage in the UK, Le Pen in France and AfD in Germany. Now watch the pendulum swing the other way to undo your 'progressive progress'.
No libtards, they're just right.
Watch out for Nigel Farage in the UK, Le Pen in France and AfD in Germany. Now watch the pendulum swing the other way to undo your 'progressive progress'.
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