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Attacked because I'm black - Osakue

Attacked because I'm black - Osakue

Discus thrower says should be okay within days

Turin, 30 July 2018, 14:30

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Italian athlete Daisy Osakue said Monday she was attacked at Moncalieri, near Turin, overnight because she is black. Osakue, who holds the Italian under-23 record for the discus and was born in Turin to Nigerian parents, was hit in the face by an egg hurled from a car at Moncalieri. She was taken with Turin's Oftalmico eye hospital with an injured cornea.
    "They did it on purpose," Osakue said.
    "They didn't want to hit me, as Daisy, they wanted to hit me as a young woman of colour.
    "There are several prostitutes in that area and they will have mistook me for one of them.
    "I have been the victim of episodes of racism before, but only verbal ones. "When you go from words to action if means another wall has been breached". At first it was feared the eye injury Osakue suffered could put her participation in the European championships at risk.
    But the 22-year-old said she should be OK.
    "Luckily it's only an abrasion," she said.
    "With a few days rest and some drops I should be all right".
    The incident follows a spate of racially motivated attacks in recent months in Italy that the opposition centre-left Democratic Party (PD) has linked to the tough comments and stance on migrants of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
    Carabinieri police sources, however, said race hate was not suspected in this case, adding that there has been other reports of eggs being thrown at passers-by from the Fiat Doblò in recent days.
    PD leader Maurizio Martina said that the government is in danger of being an accomplice to a rising wave of racism. "Not seeing the serious risk that we are running after the multiplication of cases of violence on migrants is a huge mistake," Martina said in Naples. "The problem is that there is a worrying racist spiral that should be acknowledged and fought.
    "A government that does not recognise the problem becomes an accomplice in this spiral.
    "We denounce the short-sightenedness of the government of (Interior Minister Matteo) Salvini and (Labour Minister Luigi) Di Maio and all those who make comments that deny the problem". Martina made an appeal to other associations and civil-society bodies to join the PD in a big protest against the climate of race hate in September.
   

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