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"Ladies and gentlemen, I should like to make an appeal to the Union’s institutions, be they the Commission, Parliament or the Council, because the Italian Court of Appeal – which is, accordingly, a high judicial authority in Italy – has just considered, in a judgment issued following an act of aggression by an Italian towards some young Colombian girls, that the term ‘dirty nigger’ did not constitute a racist insult, but merely a generic show of hostility.
It is pointless telling you that those words are particularly alarming. My colleague who spoke before me brought up the issue of football terraces. For his part, the Italian Minister for Institutional Reform, Mr Roberto Calderoli, believes that immigrants should return to their desert to speak to the camels, and to the jungle to dance with the monkeys – and this from a minister who sits on the European Union’s Council of Ministers!
There are, I am afraid to say, a large number of verbal
and we must not tolerate them. Something else is taking place here: a judicial institution is clearly underestimating a racist offence. I believe that this is extremely serious as far as our history is concerned. I should therefore like a reaction from our institutions."@en1
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