Naples, “the problem is that you are black”: ask for contact, racist insults arrive

“You know what the problem is? It’s that you are a nigger, you are a breed of shit and you will always remain a slave in life, you will remain a slave for life and if I catch you on the street I will send you to the hospital”. This is the content of the audio message received by a 34-year-old native of the Ivory Coast, asylum seeker in Italy for 4 years and a guest in a reception center in Villa Literno (Caserta). To pronounce these words, sent via audio on Whatsapp, is his employer, owner of a mechanical workshop in Naples, to whom the 34-year-old asked for a contract and a fair salary. The legitimate request of the 34-year-old, as has already happened several times previously, sparked the anger of the employer, who first heavily offended him during a phone call, then pressed him by sending him audio messages through Whatsapp. One of these, the heaviest from the point of view of racial insults, was forwarded by the 34-year-old to the lawyer Hilarry Sedu, an Italian lawyer of Nigerian origins involved in the recognition of civil rights for migrants. in the lawsuit presented this morning to the State Police by the lawyer on behalf of the 34-year-old Ivorian. “He was disappointed and hurt for having been insulted for the umpteenth time – the lawyer Sedu explains to Adnkronos – because he was heavily offended several times for racial reasons by his employer, every time he asked to be regularized. This time he preferred to ask him on the phone, and already during the phone call the first heavy insults arrived. After listening to the audio message, I felt that something had to be done and I worked on the lawsuit “.