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An allegedly racist attack on Italian disk launcher Daisy Osakue provoked outrage and debate in his homeland.
The 22-year-old was in Moncalieri, Piedmont, in northern Italy, aboard a pbading car in which two men were sitting and had been thrown . The athlete of Nigerian origin from Turin was then to be treated at the hospital. If she can compete at the European Championships in Berlin (6-12 August), she is still open.
"You did not want to attack me, but just somebody with dark skin," Osakue said. She also stated that she did not have to undergo eye surgery and hoped to be able to participate in the European Championship.
The attack against Osakue does not only concern the Italian sports world. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called Osakue Monday night in Washington to visit US President Donald Trump.
Racism resumed
"I expressed my solidarity with those of the government to Daisy Osakue I wished I could resume his sports activities as soon as possible," Conte said, according to media reports .
The attack on Osakue feeds the debate on the use by the Italian populist government of its racist immigration course in Italy feeds. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the ruling Lega party, described the warnings of a racist wave in Italy as "stupidity".
Italian athletes and sports officials reacted indignantly to the attack. The President of the Italian Olympic Committee, Giovanni Malago, condemned the attack on Osakue and called for an anti-racist campaign
"Italy faces a return to the Middle Ages"
The Italian champion of Juventus football Turin said in a tweet hope that Osakue participates in the European Championships in Berlin and celebrates great successes. The idol of goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon of Paris St. Germain tweeted "Forza Daisy"
Forza Daisy! #DaisyOsakue pic.twitter.com/Vdh20AzGL3
– Gianluigi Buffon (@gianluigibuffon) July 30, 2018
Statements of solidarity were made among others by the Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini. Italian volleyball player Valentina Diouf was shocked by the Osakue attack. "Italy is threatening a return to the Middle Ages," she warned.
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