last night in a building in Via Buonarroti in the Esquilino quarter in Rome has worn a tragedy that saw the death of a young Bangladeshi woman and her eight year old son, and fell from the fourth floor in the far attempt to escape the flames that had invaded their room. What some of the media were quick to define an "incident" would otherwise according to the testimonies of the other son of the victim and other residents of the apartment of the tragic consequence of an insane act of another tenant in the apartment that would be seen setting fire to the door of the room in which Mery and her children lived, and in which they were seeing on television.
Many immigrants from Bangladesh and other countries, along with the anti-racist associations and committees of struggle for the home, had therefore decided to give birth to a garrison on the corner of Piazza Vittorio and Via Buonarroti, demanding thorough investigation and identify those responsible and to show solidarity with her husband and son surviving in the meantime had made their statements in front of the Carabinieri, when the garrison was inexplicably charged in a violent manner by the police at the scene. We wonder who gave the order to attack in a manner so violent demonstrators, including women and children, desperately and against some of those present, that many have had to seek the medical care, a behavior which we will call on the authorities to respond.
It 's possible that Rome no longer feel the need to ascertain the truth and seek justice, and who you ask, still in shock over the incident, receiving beatings instead of answers? In the coming days, the Bangladeshi community will hold a public ceremony to remember the young Mery and his son, let them not feel alone.
Association of Bangladesh in Italy; Association without borders; ARCI Roma
Rome, January 13, 2007
