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01 January 1991

Italy: Police
artdoc November=1995

Forza Italia proposes military to police immigrant areas

Throughout January, many scare stories appeared in the press
linking immigrants to particular crimes. In Modena, this
culminated in Forza Italia calling for special military squads
to be used for the policing of immigrant areas. An independent
police union also alleged that Modena's public order problems
derived from an "excess of solidarity" (11 Manifesto 26.1.95).

More assaults on immigrants alleged

An Amnesty International report cites several cases concerning
the ill-treatment by law enforcement officers of foreigners.
These
include:
* an assault on Naser Hasani, a Rom from the former
Yugoslavia, taken to the outskirts of Florence and attacked
with a hammer after police officers stopped him in a car
following an identity check in June 1994;
* a Moroccan immigrant underwent an emergency operation to
remove his spleen after he was allegedly assaulted by an
officer from the Milan carabiniere in August 1994. Khaled
Yablouti, a drug addict, said that he had been at the point of
injecting himself in a city underpass when the officer
attacked him;
* a Tunisian immigrant attacked by officers attached to
Spopomo municipal police who asked to see his identity papers
in August 94. The man's injuries, caused by police
truncheons, were reported by doctors from a Savona hospital
where he sought treatment (AI, op cit).

Update on shooting of Tarzan Sulic

According to Amnesty International, the trial of the officer
accused of shooting the 11-year-old Rom,

Tarzan Sulic, will take place in Padua in March. As a member of
a paramilitary force, the officer also faces a court martial for
illegal use of a regulation firearm (AI, ibid).

IRR European Race Audit, no 13, April 1995. Contact: Liz Fekete,
Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS.
Tel: 0171 837 0041