OT: ops, there was some noise on the street where I live

[giovanni]

My friends, not a great news, but just to share something with you, this is the street where I live called VIA PADOVA; not that my place was touched anyway...and I'm not scared at all about all this mess...and I like multi-ethnicity, but sometimes it just 'slides away from the police hands'; we use to have the army in this street, but even with that, well, as I said, sometimes you can't do that much about it.

Just to resume up for Italian non-speaking forumers, a latin guy killed a north-african guy for a very futile reason, or at least this is what somebody said; they were on the bus and started fighting, but when they got out of the bus, one of the latin guys killed a 17year old north-african guy with a knife; they run away then; what happened a few minutes later is that the african community guys gathered up and started smashing windows shop owned by latin people, a big fight started, hundreds of people got in the streets and you can imagine (see the pics) the rest.
Italian residents went down in the streets as well to defend their cars turned up...the rest is a total chaos on a quiet Saturday afternoon.

http://www.corriere.it/cronache/10_febb ... aabe.shtml

[ltwoman]

Gio, I'm glad you said you aren't scared. I would be. Stay vigilant!

[smax]

cripes.


can't you play "Gong Rock" or some Gizmo stuff loudly out of the window to placate the angry mob and get them dancin'?!

[moonstone]

Blimey Gio!

Were you at home at the time?

I'm glad that you and your home are all in one piece and that you weren't afraid.

I'd have been hiding under my bed.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Oh my gosh! Hope everything's OK now. Stay safe Gio!!

[shyvixen]

I'm glad to know that you're safe. That looks like a scary situation.