Gioia del Colle, child racist insults: social services intervene with the attackers' families. The mayor: "A cowardly act."

We will conduct checks on the families of the young people who committed this serious and cowardly act of discrimination against a child. This is an incident for which we, as social services, will also be involved, to understand how this idea of ​​discrimination could have occurred at such a young age.

The mayor of Gioia del Colle, Giovanni Mastrangelo, is deeply saddened and yet firmly condemns an episode that has shocked so many. The first victim, an 11-year-old boy who returned home covered in spit, his family, and the entire community of Gioia del Colle, are deeply saddened. "Such a terrible episode," the mayor condemns, "that amounts to discrimination; it has never happened in our community. We have reception centers with refugees from Ukraine and Africa; we've never had any reception problems, and I don't want the city to be highlighted in a negative light now."

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