During the last years there have been and increase in the number of racist and hate crimes in Italy. The last significant and striking event took place in Florence in 2011: two Senegalese have been killed by an Italian racist man. According to 2011 UNAR’s report there have been 540 relevant cases of ethnic discriminations. 

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  • Racist violence - Hate Speech Statistics

    Italy has only recently begun to collect any kind of data on hate crimes, and the existing data appears to be partial. Law enforcement crime reports do not record the victim’s ethnicity, race, or religion; statistics drawn from the Interior Ministry’s centralized database can therefore not be disaggregated by particular vulnerable groups (for example, Roma or Muslims).

    • Overall numbers of racist & hate crime

      142 hate crime (year: 2009).

      Qualitative Info

      Italy has only recently begun to collect any kind of data on hate crimes, and the existing data appears to be partial. Law enforcement crime reports do not record the victim’s ethnicity, race, or religion; statistics drawn from the Interior Ministry’s centralized database can therefore not be disaggregated by particular vulnerable groups (for example, Roma or Muslims). The Interior Ministry does not publish hate crime data, though it has a policy of providing statistics upon request. Italy reported 147 hate crimes to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2007, 112 hate crimes in 2008 and 142 hate crimes in 2009. Regarding racist crime, The Interior Ministry recorded 64 racist and 31 xenophobic crimes between January and September 2009.

      Groups affected/interested

      • Migrants
      • Ethnic minorities

      Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas

      • Anti-discrimination
      • Anti-racism
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    • Deaths/killings

      7 (year: 2009)

      Qualitative Info

      The NGO Lunaria reported 7 people killed, 58 other cases of racist violence targeting immigrants and refugees, and 11 cases in which property was damaged. Lunaria stated that the groups targeted most often included citizens of Bangladesh and Romania.


      Source:

      http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/italy0311WebRevised.pdf

      Groups affected/interested

      • Migrants
      • Refugees
      • Ethnic minorities

      Type (R/D)

      • Extremism - organised Racist Violence
      • Anti-migrant/xenophobia

      Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas

      • Anti-discrimination
      • Anti-racism

      External Url http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/13/italy-s-complacency-racism-puts-lives-risk

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    • Court cases on racist - hate crime

      9 (year 2008).

      Qualitative Info

      Data provided by the Ministry of Justice on “racial discrimination” cases initiated and concluded in 2008 does not allow for detailed analysis. It is not disaggregated by specific crime. The statistics also do not capture cases in which the prosecutor did not request the application of the aggravating circumstance of racial sentiment. The document does not clarify whether information was obtained from all prosecutor’s offices and trial courts around the country. A representative of the Justice Ministry acknowledged that the collection and systematization of data are partial and problematic.


      Source:

      Human Rights Watch, Everyday Intolerance. Racist and Xenophobic Violence in Italy, March 2011 - http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-137-italy-security-package.pdf

      Groups affected/interested

      • Migrants
      • Ethnic minorities

      Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas

      • Anti-discrimination
      • Anti-racism
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  • Discrimination Statistics

    Between 2009 and 2010 in Italy the change in number of complaints regarding ethnic discrimination received by Equality Body was +326. The latest report of Unar show 766 cases where ethnic discrimination was found by Equality Body, of which 70,2% (540 cases) has been declared relevant.