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African migrants flee Italian town as pope condemns violence
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An immigrant worker is being treated after he was injured during clashes with residents of the southern Italian town of Rosarno. More than 1,000 Africans fled a southern Italian town over the weekend after a wave of violence against migrant farm workers as Pope Benedict XVI condemned the assaults on immigrants.
ROSARNO, Italy (AFP) - – More than 1,000 Africans fled a southern Italian town over the weekend after a wave of violence against migrant farm workers as Pope Benedict XVI condemned the assaults on immigrants.
An investigation was under way to establish whether local organised crime groups were involved in clashes that left 67 people injured in the Calabrian town of Rosarno -- 31 of them migrants, 19 police officers and 17 locals.
Calm was generally restored Sunday after two days of unrest.
Police in the regional capital Reggio di Calabria said Sunday 1,128 African migrants had left the Rosarno area, with more than 800 transferred to reception centres in the southern towns of Crotone and Bari.
Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against the violence which erupted on Thursday and Friday, saying in his traditional Sunday sermon, "We have to go to the heart of the problem, of the significance of the human being.
"An immigrant is a human being, different in where they came from, in their culture and tradition, but a person to respect who has rights and responsibilities."
"Violence must never be a means to solve difficulties. The problem is a human one, and I invite everyone to look in the face of those nearby and see their soul, their history and their life and say to themselves: he is a man and God loves him as God loves me," the pope added.
A Rosarno police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity and referring to the possible involvement of the region's 'Ndrangheta network, one of Italy's most brutal organised crime group, told AFP that "several investigations are under way but they have only just started."
'Ndrangheta members are suspected of having exploded a device outside the public prosecutor's office in the regional capital Reggio Calabria earlier this month in a revenge attack.
Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni confirmed on Sky TG24 news channel that the cause of the two-day unrest in Rosarno, population 15,000, was being investigated.
Maroni accused the 'Ndrangheta of having "secretly brought thousands of workers into the country" to unscrupulously exploit them.
He also criticised local authorities, the migrants' employers and employers' associations for worsening the migrants' condition by paying them poorly and accommodating them in slum quarters.
"Police recognised local 'Ndrangheta clan members in the clashes with the immigrants," Il Quotidiano della Calabria reporter Michele Albanese told AFP.
"The mafia cynically exploits the immigrants. The criminal masterminds know that clandestine immigrants will not even try to revolt because they have no ID and no state protection," anti-mafia priest Luigi Ciotti concurred.
Il Giornale, the newspaper owned by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's family, meanwhile, offered provocative advice for residents of the southern Calabria region: "Rather than shooting negroes, shoot the mafia."
"Why won't Calabrians shoot the mafia? Immigrants are poor and weak, ugly and dirty, perfect targets," the paper said. "Organised crime which keeps security forces in check is powerful, violent, revengeful and therefore must not be bothered," the paper added with a twist of irony.
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