“Nine out of ten are black” says a judge. And with it “prison emptying” pushers are not punishable
Of Luca Fazzo
From the Milanese nightlife districts to the narrow streets of the center of Macerata, from the Spanish quarters of Naples to the Venetian countryside: the homo novus of crime in Italy is the drug dealer coming from abroad, the faceless and historyless pusher who sells death in the squares of the Peninsula.
Presences now known, fragments of the urban landscape. Everyone, or almost, foreigners; and of these all, or almost, illegal immigrants. From North to South, every city has its neighborhood in the hands of the "stuff" gangs, known to all. Including law enforcement.
How many are there?, Innocent Oseghale's colleagues, the Nigerian who tore Pamela Mastropietro to pieces, triggering Luca Traini's Nazi delirium? How many Maghreb or Central African "horses" are there who, like Oseghale, live solely by selling heroin, cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, all the rubbish available in the open-air markets of the Italian suburbs? The number is incalculable, but we are certainly talking about thousands of people: all male, all young. For three ethnic groups, according to the latest ISTAT report, selling drugs ranks first among the favorite crimes: they are Albanian, Moroccans and Tunisians. But the former have the levers of large-scale traffic in their hands, while for the Arabs the real deal is retail, retail trade. And the same goes for Nigerians too, Gambians and Senegalese, who do not appear in the Istat report but instead appear in the cages of direct trials that clog up the Italian courts on a daily basis. «Out of ten drug arrests that are brought before me – says a Milanese judge – nine are black". And the morning reports with the arrests of the Volante confirm this: Only non-EU citizens end up in handcuffs for drugs. Read More