One World (Not Three)

• Jacopo Storni, Firenze, il viaggio dei cinesi ad Amatrice: “Cinque furgoni di aiuti per i nostri fratelli sfollati” | Florence, Chinese-Italian community going to Amatrice: “Five vans with aid for ours homeless brothers”, Corriere della Sera, June 28, 2016

“Let’s go to Amatrice”. The idea came to Francesco Xia e Luca Zheng, representatives of the Chinese-Florentine community in Osmannoro, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. They thought about it no more than ten minutes, and then decided it was time to give a strong signal of belonging to their second country. In less than four hours they made everything. They bought emergency aid goods at wholesale shopping centres, visited almost any factory in Campi Bisenzio and Osmannoro in order to pick up a load of mattresses and blankets, and finally rented five vans. “Five vans with emergency aid for our homeless Italian brothers”, they said. “We want to give a message of solidarity, dialogue, and integration”. At the dawn of Saturday, they symbolically left to Amatrice from Piazzale Marconi in Osmannoro, where, last July, clashes had arisen between Chinese workers and Italian law enforcement officials during routine inspections of industrial factories in the productive area.

“Unity makes strength and creates solidarity regardless of skin color, culture and origin”. Screengrab from the CORRIERETV’s video.

The Eye of the Needle

During routine inspections by ASL of industrial factories in the Osmannoro productive area (Sesto Fiorentino province), clashes have arisen between Chinese workers and Italian law enforcement officials. In the end, Italian police arrested and detained two Chinese people. Apparently, the clashes were due to a kind of incommunicability. According to Angelo Hu, Councilman in Campi Bisenzio for Sinistra Italiana, “We must distinguish two moments. First, the delay for rescue of an old injured Chinese, the grandfather of a child, in spite of the fact he was needing more urgent care than the Italian policemen. This caused anger. Thus they closed themselves behind locked factory gates, just for soliciting the rescue of their old injured countrymen”. An official of the Chinese Consulate in Florence was ultimately called in to mediate, but in vain. Other Chinese workers had already, in the past weeks, complained of excessive harshness of such control inspections. Therefore, we recommend Mr. Lorenzo Falchi, the newly-elected Mayor of Sesto Fiorentino, to call for necessity of respect of law in carrying out a policy of legalisation without misuse of power.

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