«Go back to your jungle», «if you pass by here I'll kick your c***», «you'd need a good pass of a n***a's s*** so you can relax».
It must have been a quiet day at the beach for the children of the multicultural summer center of the Marina in Cagliari . A last glimmer of vacation before the start of school, to be spent in a bathing establishment in Nora.
Too bad that a 50-year-old tourist with her teenage daughter in tow and a clear Lombard accent also decided to "relax" in the same place. Probably annoyed by the liveliness of the group, made up of around fifty Sardinian or foreign-born children between the ages of 5 and 18, " she spent the entire morning and early afternoon addressing offensive, vulgar, racist and sexist epithets at us of the team and, worst of all, to the boys, guilty according to her of ruining the atmosphere of the establishment». One of the centre's educators, Alessandra Atzori, tells it in a long post.
«First he called them "jungle animals", even if they were quietly sitting under the umbrellas having a snack», then when one of them passed near his bed, he addressed him with a «If you come back from here I'll kick you f**k» . Not happy, she said to a Tunisian child: «You're so ugly that I won't even answer you», to another «Shut up, Dumbo, and go play with your strange friends». He has not spared even the Sardinians, according to him "accustomed to the jungle".
The attempts of the educators (one of whom is married to a Congolese) to avoid raising the tone and making the atmosphere peaceful were useless: «The lady only approaches to say that they need "a good pass of shit of a n***o so you relax"». When they tried to protest with the managers of the establishment «the solutions proposed were to move us to the free beach or to make unthinkable rounds to return to our positions. Never, in any way, has there been an attempt to reason with that completely insane woman who ruined our day . “You know, she has been our client since June…”».
“The question I've been trying to answer since yesterday is: does money beat education? – asks Atzori -. We stayed 5 hours in the company of that "lady" and we had to suffer racist, sexist, as well as gratuitous offenses against kids who had the only fault of behaving like kids. I won't mention the name of the establishment because I have no intention of unleashing controversy, even though I had never been to that establishment and I will certainly never set foot there again». «Every day – is the final comment – we try to teach our children and young people to be respectful of all differences and to be tolerant. Yesterday they saw adults who tried to defend them (us), others who turned against them just because they don't have white skin and still others who defended this idiot just because she's been paying them for three months. What will they have learned from this experience, other than realizing that if you have the money, you can afford everything?”
(Unioneonline/D)