The Osakue Italian athlete, of Nigerian descent, wounded by an egg thrower

Rome- Sub-23 Italian disc launcher Daisy Osakue, of Nigerian descent, was wounded in the eye after strangers threw her eggs from a car last night, in what is being studied as a new racist episode in Italy

The athlete was hit in the face by one of the eggs and had to be operated on by a corneal abrasion and removed from the body. eye a fragment of the shell, during an attack She was returning home last night in Turin, where she has lived since childhood with her parents, a Nigerian national.

The 22-year-old girl, considered one of the Italian promises of discus and weight, explained that received insults of a racist nature during the assault, "it is rare at midnight someone enters a car with eggs ".

According to media reports, police are already investigating this case and other New Launch episodes of a car that was produced in this city in northwestern Italy in recent years. days.

The youth organization of the Democratic Party (PD) of Turin denounced in a statement the attack of Osakue, who said that he was an activist of this political formation, and accused the government of generating "the climate of tension and blind violence that is created in Italy."

"The time has come to stop underestimating assaults against people whose only fault is to have a different skin color who pretends that it is an accident or a coincidence, lies" added in a note the democratic youth of the section of the Piedmont region, whose capital is Turin.

PD members corroborate that it is the umpteenth aggression a person in Italy to be black or immigrant and they asked the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini to come to Parliament to "explain these phenomena that seem to increase, fueled by racist propaganda. "

Salvini claimed yesterday that the alarm of racism "It is an invention of the left, the Italians are good people, but their patience is over. As a minister, I have been working for 58 days to ensure the safety and serenity of our cities. "

The young woman explained that, although she needs days off, she can participate in the European Championships in Athletics In January 2017, the athlete, a nationalized Italian, moved to the State University of Angelo, Texas, to combine her studies at the University of New York. training.