Italy and the new antisemitism
Tags: Police Violence, BlackLivesMatter, Italy, Anti Semitism, Racism

Few weeks ago it was the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I read a study that proof how antisemitism raised in Italy: in 2004 there were 2,5% of deniers (people who do believe Holocaust never existed). In 2020 there are in Italy over 15% of deniers.

Something really scary. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I know lot of people in Italy and I was just curious about that.

What I learned it scared me even more. Italy is at 41st place in the world for freedom of the press. Basically, most of the newspapers and mass media are aligned with government, sometimes they pretend to argue just for the sake to fake a contradictory that doesn’t exist. They discuss about politics, but anything else is under control and censorship.

It’s hard to believe but 41st place speaks for itself.

What do you not read on newspaper are the crimes of carabinieri, a kind of police that most of my contacts described as “italian Gestapo”. Actually looking at their uniforms I have to say that remember me more the nazis than police, but I do my research: that corp was born before nazis.

Doing some historically researches I found that their motto “for ever loyal” it’s not something to be proud of. As a matter of fact they were “loyal” to every regime and they have committed atrocities since their birth. In 1864 they open the fire against civilian population protesting peacefully. It was a slaughter and they were the only responsible for that. After being loyal to the king, as soon as Mussolini took power in Italy they immediately swore allegiance to the fascism. They made their fundamental contribution in the deportation of many Jews in the nazi extermination camps (lager).

After the fall of fascism they immediately swore obedience to the newborn republic.

But as many people testify, they never change their bloodthirsty nature.

Lately the covid lockdown and the closure of the courts in Italy have led to an exponential increase in reports of crime and abuse made by carabinieri.

I asked myself how is it possible and why there’s no italian media coverage.

My Italian contacts explain me very well how it’s possible.

Few years ago there was a case that caused a scandal: the assassination of Stefano Cucchi. Mr Cucchi was a drug addict that was arrested, tortured and beaten for days by sadistic carabinieri and finally killed. In order to cover these crimes, the carabinieri were covered by their own superiors, they threatened the doctors who were not complacent, they falsified documents and they forced the doctors under threat to fill out a false autopsy.

Only the sister of Mr. Cucchi strong political connections helped uncover the truth. And despite this, the carabinieri assassins received favorable treatment from the magistracy.

How’s that possible? Recently a magistrate belonging to the highest ranks of magistracy (Palamara) exposed how the justice works in Italy: it is completely rotten from top to bottom. You can Google his name, it’s unbelievable how many things you will find. The entire justice system is rigged, corrupted, associated with the mafia and so on. In the courtrooms what really matters is to be a fake hero on tv and mass media, not the search for truth. And Italian journalists are always happy to please judges and carabinieri. You will never hear stories about the true heroes: EMS volunteers, volunteers from associations of free assistance to the elderly, the disabled and so on.

You will only hear about stories that even Hollywood don’t buy.

Back to racism, another case you probabily remember: two american students are in Florence, Italy. One night they hang out with friends. One of the two girls get drunk, the friend assist her, wait a little. Meanwhile all the other people left, only a car of carabinieri remains, hidden in the shadows. The carabinieri approach the girls, asking them if they want a ride by car to home (it’s illegal to ride someone if tis’ not arrested). Of course the girls trust the uniform and say yes. Big mistake. They were both repeatedly raped. After the shock the girls went to the hospital, where the doctors note the violence suffered by the girls and documented it. Result? Italian press defend “the poor carabinieri, one married” and call the students “sluts”. Of course foreign press rise up against this violent and cowardly crime, the US embassy puts pressure, but at the end of the day these two rapers were never incriminated, just an admonition to have used improperly the car.

Many said they hate Americans and the rape of foreigners is something not so unusual.

There’s more that this.

In the past months many carabinieri were arrested and an entire station was closed. The accusations: drug trafficking, torture and much more. They were arrested only because another carabiniere accused them, otherwise they would still be on the loose. Drug trafficking. Torture. Can you imagine that? Now you understand why lot of Italian people is really worried and call them italian Gestapo.

The scheme it’s always the same, they follow a precise pattern: they frame someone (often completely innocent), they falsify reports, they threaten witnesses, doctors, family members of the victim, they choose a complacent magistrate, they appear as fake heroes on mass media.

They put in jail a man for thirty years for murder with fake proofs. They are dangerous criminals organized in mafia gang and people fear them. That’s also why no journalist want to write against them: they fear for their freedom, for their lives, for their families.

My Italian contacts openly spoken to me about a rise of crimes and abuses from carabinieri in the last year. Many testify a delusional and dangerous anti-Semitic surge. They hate Africans, North-Africans, Jews, Muslims, Americans.

The most dangeours aspect is the anti-Semitism against italian Jews.

People start to feel insecure, they live in fear.

They choose their victims with predatory ferocity, choosing the weakest and most isolated ones.

My friends told me stories I will verify and told me to be their voice. I will honor that.

More to come very soon.

Stay tuned.