Athlete Osakue says she was mistaken for thief because black

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 16 - Italian athlete Daisy Osakue has denounced that she was stopped and checked at a store in Turin because she is black.
    "There were so many people and they stopped me, they blocked me suddenly as if I were stealing the whole store - it bothers me, it bothers me a lot", said the Olympic champion, who lives at Moncalieri near Turin.
    The online edition of Turin daily La Stampa reported about a post on Instagram in which she also said: "I was stopped at an Apple store in Turin - they thought I was stealing because I am black".
    In 2018, Osakue said she was attacked at Moncalieri because she was black.
    The athlete, who 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 at the time.
    "They didn't want to hit me, as Daisy, they wanted to hit me as a young woman of colour". (ANSA).