Goliardic youth

On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 three young people, including two minors, shot pellets from a window in Aprilia, a town south of Rome, Italy and wounded a Cameroonian man in the foot. The incident follows the killing of a Moroccan man in the same city last July 29, when three men — who later said they took him to be a thief — decided to take justice into their own hands. With respect to Wednesday’s shoot-off, the three young people deny any racial reason.

A young man removes graffiti reading “Free Mandela” from a wall of King’s College Chapel in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England in 1965. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in 1964 for opposing the Apartheid of the South African government and was not released until 1990. He later became South Africa’s President. Photo © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images.

• Ylenia Gostoli, 9 shootings in 50 days: Italy’s ugly face of racism, Deutsche Welle, August 17, 2018