Brescia

The mayor inaugurates the renovated space thanks to the sheikhs and unveils the plaque dedicated to the Muslim god
Of Alberto Giannoni
Ghetto neighborhoods, towers prisoners of terrifying degradation, abusive religious centers that are the backdrop to dark events, car parks inaugurated "in the name of Allah".
Even the Lioness of Italy is now afraid. Second city in Lombardy, beautiful and rich, Brescia no longer feels safe. And if the official data confirms the inevitable decline in crimes, 42 one hundred citizens consider the work of the "Lodge" on security to be little or not at all effective. And the game that will open the door of the town hall to the new mayor is being played on this too. In the streets of the small city center you can still perceive the decorum that is a legacy of the old DC councils of times gone by. In the suburbs, at the station, in the long streets transformed into ghettos you can see different films. In public housing blocks, waste flies directly from the windows into the courtyard, to become the meal of pigeons that scratch undisturbed among expanses of garbage and guano. Bivouacs are reported in the station square, annoying and suspicious traffic in the parks.
Meanwhile, more than one in two Brescia residents consider the management and integration of immigrants to be ineffective. And in the eyes of the center-right, insecurity and immigration are one and the same. Data in hand, we understand why. The impact of the new flows is unparalleled, if not in large metropolises. According to Orim, 36 thousand immigrants live in the city, il 18,5% of residents. Passing through via Milan, the incidence of colorful and variously covering veils is impressive. Often little girls or boys wear them. He will have 9-10 years the one who together with her father enters the headquarters of the «Al Noor» association in via Bonardi, the one that the centre-right candidate Paola Vilardi wants to close. Mayor Emilio Del Bono twenty days ago considered it a presumed mosque. A video documented the comings and goings of hundreds of people. We are three kilometers from Piazza Della Loggia. Behind the lowered shutter of the mosque, according to the sign taped on, Arabic courses are held, they do their homework, tax and family assistance is provided. I wonder if Sana's father has ever used it, the young woman who lived in Brescia before being killed in Pakistan: precisely from his father according to the local authorities who arrested him and to whom he confessed everything. Twelve years ago a very similar story, Hina's, 21year old killed by her family for refusing patriarchal impositions. Read More