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Lodi, l’affondo di Fico: «Chiedere scusa ai bimbi e riammetterli a #mensa»

Dopo la rivolta contro l’esclusione dei bimbi stranieri l’inversione di rotta del governo. Salvini: «Se i genitori non possono portare i documenti, varrà la buona fede». E Di Maio: «I bambini non si toccano, Bussetti troverà soluzione». Ma la sindaca resiste: «Il regolamento resta in vigore»

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Lodi: sospendere la delibera comunale sulle modalità di accesso alle prestazioni sociali agevolate

Lodi: Amnesty International Lombardia chiede la sospensione della delibera comunale sulle modalità di accesso alle prestazioni sociali agevolate

Amnesty International Lombardia ha espresso preoccupazione per la delibera approvata dal comune di Lodi, che prevede che ai fini dell’accoglimento della domanda per ottenere le agevolazioni vengano considerati – per i cittadini stranieri – anche i redditi e i beni posseduti all’estero e non dichiarati in Italia.

Ai fini di tale certificazione, anche in assenza di beni o redditi, è necessario produrre una certificazione rilasciata dalla competente autorità dello stato estero (ambasciata o consolato), corredata da traduzione legalizzata dall’autorità consolare italiana che ne attesti la conformità.

In una lettera inviata alla sindaca di Lodi, Sara Casanova, il responsabile di Amnesty International Lombardia, Simone Rizza, ha dichiarato che “in conseguenza di tale disposizione, in molti casi si ha l’impossibilità di attestare una situazione patrimoniale di difficoltà, a carico di una considerevole fascia di popolazione debole e sulla base di un criterio inequivocabilmente discriminatorio (…). Gli effetti sono di particolare rilevanza se visti in relazione al servizio di mensa e di trasporto pubblico per i bambini delle famiglie colpite dal provvedimento, il cui diritto allo studio e ad una positiva integrazione con i compagni pari-età rischiano di essere seriamente compromessi“.

Amnesty International Lombardia ha dunque chiesto alla sindaca di sospendere questa misura al più presto, individuando in via alternativa criteri diversi e comunque non discriminatori.

▻https://www.amnesty.it/lodi-amnesty-international-lombardia-chiede-la-sospensione-della-delibera-co

Veneto, bimbi stranieri non hanno sconti sui libri senza certificati dei Paesi d’origine

Nuovo ‘caso Lodi’: i bimbi stranieri vengono discriminati in Veneto: senza certificazioni dei Paesi d’origine che attestino la condizione economica della famiglia non possono ottenere agevolazioni sui libri scolastici. Assessore del comune di Padova: “Lo faccia la Regione la verifica visto che si tratta di una disposizione regionale anche perché ad oggi non c’è un elenco dei Paesi che aderiscono alle convenzioni quindi tecnicamente è una norma inapplicabile e per questo discriminatoria”

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Mensa ai bimbi migranti, il dem Guerini: «Non cancellate l’umanità della mia Lodi»

Sindaco per otto anni, ora a capo del Copasir. Il deputato dem parla del caso-mense scolastiche: «L’immagine che si sta dando non ha nulla a che fare con la nostra comunità che si è sempre caratterizzata per l’impegno verso gli altri»

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Italy’s Salvini forced into U-turn over school lunches for immigrant children

Far-right minister forced to drop support for edict that effectively excluded children from school canteens

Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has been forced to drop his support for a controversial policy in a northern city that led to the children of immigrants paying more for school lunches than their Italian counterparts.

The minister came under pressure after a crowdfunding appeal raised €60,000 (£46,000) within a few days to fund school lunches for the children of mainly African migrants in protest against a resolution passed by Sara Casanova, the mayor from Salvini’s League party in the Lombardy city of Lodi, that in effect forced them to eat separately.
The edict had obliged parents to declare their assets, in Italy and their countries of origin – a difficult if not impossible request for those coming from African countries – in order to qualify for the standard cost of meals.

Failing to provide the asset details meant they had to pay the highest rate of €5 per child, and with migrants constituting the poorest people in the city, many could not afford to do so. Families were also required to pay €210 per child each quarter for the school bus.

The resolution, first reported by the Piazza Pulita television programme, meant that for two weeks, more than 300 children were in effect excluded from school canteens across the city and forced to dine at home.

Activists and leftwing politicians attacked the resolution, with a senator from the centre-left Democratic party, Simona Malpezzi, describing it as “apartheid”.

Italy’s children’s commissioner, Filomena Albano, urged the city’s council to rethink the policy, telling La Repubblica: “It’s unthinkable to force young children to eat alone, cut off from their classmates, because their parents cannot pay.”

The aid group Coordination of Equal Duties launched a crowdfunding campaign across Italy that raised €60,000 to ensure school lunches and bus rides for children affected by the resolution.

Amid the outcry, Salvini relinquished his support for the move, writing on Facebook that “a self-certification of assets” would be enough to guarantee school meals for the children of foreigners.

He also came under pressure from his government coalition partner, Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the populist Five Star Movement, who praised Italians’ generosity and said “no child should be harmed”.

In spite of the pressures from the government and the protesters, Casanova has insisted she will not go back on her decision. Although she is likely to accept the self-certification, the resolution will not be dismissed, she told reporters.

The former prime minister Matteo Renzi described the resolution as a “national disgrace”.

‘‘Seeing children discriminated against in the school canteen for economic reasons hurts the heart,” he wrote on Twitter. “Politics based on hate and fear generates monsters.”

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Italy’s Tough Line on Immigrants Reaches a School Cafeteria

At the beginning of the school year, as most of the elementary students chatted over warm plates of pasta in the cafeteria, about a dozen immigrant children unwrapped sandwiches around three tables in a spare classroom with slanted purple blinds, drab office furniture and a form reading, “Students who bring lunch from home.”

“I wanted to go back to the cafeteria,” said Khadiga Gomaa, a 10-year-old Egyptian girl.

Khadiga and the others did not belong to an Italian breakfast club of poorly behaved students. They were segregated from the rest of the pupils at Lodi’s Archinti school because they had lost their daily lunch subsidy.

And that was because they failed to meet a new, and critics say punitive, requirement introduced by the town’s mayor, a member of the governing and anti-immigrant League party.

In addition to the usual documentation needed for lunch and bus subsidies, the mayor now requires foreigners to prove that they do not possess property, bank accounts or other revenue streams in their countries of origin.

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Without that proof, children cannot get subsidized lunch and instead have to pay five euros a day, which many parents say they cannot afford. But in Lodi’s schools, as in much of Italy, children cannot bring outside food into the cafeteria.

That meant students who hadn’t paid or received subsidies had to go home for lunch. To avoid burdening parents, the school’s principal allowed the children to bring sandwiches from home and eat them in a separate room.

Reports of segregation in Lodi — and the violation of the sacred Italian ritual of lunching together — struck an Italian heartstring.

After a national outcry, Italians raised 80,000 euros to pay for the lunches and school buses of about 200 immigrant children, many of them born and raised in Italy, through December. And many hailed the haul as a first sign of resistance to the League, and to Matteo Salvini, its national leader and Italy’s powerful vice premier, who has cracked down on immigration, hardened opposition to birthright citizenship and spoken harshly about migrants.

But here in Lodi, a town in the fertile Po River Valley, with a handsome piazza paved with cobbled gray river stones and adorned with a medieval cathedral and neoclassical facades, many locals took another view.

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On Tuesday morning, as the committee that had raised money for the children held a rally in a small piazza directly under the mayor’s offices, Adriana Bonvicini, 60, bought gladioli in the piazza’s flower shop.

“They are exploiting their children and people’s feelings to get what they want,” she said, gesturing at the square, filled with women in hijabs and flowing African dresses.

“They are trying to cast us as heartless,” she continued. “They are the cruel ones. It’s a question of justice. They all have five kids each and want a free ride. Remember what Erdogan said.”

This was a reference to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who has urged Turkish people living in Europe to “have not just three but five children.” She quoted him, loosely: “We will take over Europe through our women’s bellies.”

The women around Ms. Bonvicini agreed.

They argued that it wasn’t so hard for foreigners to get proof from their embassies and that foreigners took advantage of the town’s largess and then complained about it.

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They sounded, in short, like the people who voted for the League in the town and all over the country.

“Let them govern,” Ms. Bonvicini said, referring to the government.

But Lodi mothers from Tunisia and Egypt said that they returned home to get the documents and that none existed. A mother from Nigeria said her husband went to the embassy in Rome and submitted the requisite documentation to the city, but had yet to hear back and was struggling to pay the full freight for her child.

The mayor, Sara Casanova, had the backing of Mr. Salvini (“SHE’S RIGHT!!!” he wrote on Twitter). On Tuesday she was nowhere to be seen.

She declined an interview request, but told La Verità, a newspaper preferred by the government, that she didn’t require the documentation from people from war-torn nations, and that “we’re not racist and there’s no apartheid here.”

On Tuesday, the committee’s organizers hung signs showing children with their noses pressed up against a cafeteria window.

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Another sign showed a boy with his hands in the air saying: “Fascism is back. History didn’t teach you anything!!”

That sign was directed to Lodi’s mayor, whose door they knocked on every two hours with chants of “Open up.” But it could have been a message to the national government.

Tuesday was also the 75th anniversary of the deportation of Roman Jews to Nazi death camps, but the prime minister’s office wrote that it was the 80th anniversary, and the president of the country’s national broadcaster, who was chosen by Mr. Salvini, wrote of “the celebration of the 65th anniversary.”

Northern regions controlled by the League have also required immigrants to prove their financial status through the same bureaucratic requirement used in Lodi when trying to get low-cost public housing and subsidies to buy school textbooks. For the demonstrators in Lodi, the town, a famous battlefield for Napoleon, was now a front against the government’s creeping racism and resurgent fascism.

“I’m sorry for Italy if they think this is equality,” said Imen Mbarek, 30, who said she returned to Tunisia to get the right papers but that they simply didn’t exist. She is now paying full price for school lunch; last year, she said, she paid 1.65 euros a day.

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Hayat Laoulaoi, 35, a Moroccan housewife with a blue headdress and pink cellphone cover, had four children, all but one born in Italy. She said she was unable to secure the required documentation or afford the full freight.

o she made her son Soufiane, 9, tuna sandwiches that he ate in the separate room.

She said that after losing the bus subsidy, she walked with him six kilometers to school and that when they saw a bus drive by on the street he asked, “‘There’s a school bus, why can’t we go on it?’”

As she spoke, her son played quietly with a Transformer toy and said he missed his friend Rayen, a Tunisian boy who still eats in the cafeteria.

The majority of the students in his school, as high as 80 percent according to school officials, are considered foreigners, even though many of them were born and raised in Italy.

Eugenio Merli, the principal of the Archinti school — which is named for Ettore Archinti, a former Lodi mayor sent by fascists to die in a Nazi concentration camp — defended his decision to put the children in a separate classroom to eat.

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“Eating in the classroom created a type of separation, but it was a way to help the parents,” he said, adding that he worried that if the children were forced home for lunch, they might not come back.

This month, he strong-armed the cafeteria’s caterers into letting the students back into the cafeteria, where they ate their sandwiches at separate tables.

“The kids have a right to be with their friends, not to be segregated,” he said. “They aren’t just going to school to learn. They are also learning how to live together.”

Outside the school, he greeted Khadiga Gomaa, who was in high spirits. She said she had eaten her first hot lunch with her friends since school started.

“I had penne pasta, cod and salad,” she said. “It was good.”

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Il giudice blocca un sindaco della Lega: delibera discriminatoria contro gli immigrati

Come a Lodi anche a #Vigevano il comune chiedeva agli stranieri documentazione introvabile per poter avere agevolazioni.

La delibera del 2017 emessa dal sindaco #Andrea_Sala Comune di Vigevano (Pavia) in cui si disponeva che l’accesso agli stranieri a «prestazioni sociali agevolate» non era subordinato al solo modello Isee (come accade per i cittadini italiani), ma anche all’esibizione di «certificati o attestazioni rilasciati dalla competente autorità dello Stato estero, legalizzati dalle autorità consolari italiane e corredati di traduzione in lingua italiana» è stata giudicata discriminatoria dal Tribunale di Milano, che ha accolto le richieste delle associazioni Asgi (Associazione studi giuridici sull’immigrazione), Naga e Anolf-Cisl, assistite dagli avvocati Alberto Guariso, Giulia Vicini e Silvia Balestro. Le associazioni, dopo aver ricordato che la decisione del giudice Francesca Capelli è in linea con quella sul noto caso delle mense di Lodi, spiegano che il Tribunale col provvedimento «conferma che le amministrazioni comunali non possono richiedere agli stranieri documenti aggiuntivi rispetto all’Isee».
Lo scorso dicembre, infatti, il Tribunale di Milano aveva accertato la «condotta discriminatoria del Comune di Lodi» sul caso del servizio mensa dal quale sono stati esclusi di fatto i bambini stranieri e aveva ordinato di «modificare il ’Regolamento per l’accesso alle prestazioni sociali agevolate’ in modo da consentire ai cittadini non appartenenti all’Unione Europea di presentare la domanda di accesso» alle stesse condizioni degli italiani.
Anche nel caso di Vigevano, ora, il giudice della Sezione lavoro del Tribunale milanese ha ordinato al Comune «di cessare il comportamento discriminatorio e pertanto di revocare o modificare la delibera di Giunta comunale» in modo «da consentire ai cittadini di paesi extra Ue di accedere a prestazioni sociali agevolate, mediante presentazione dell’Isee alle medesime condizioni previste per i cittadini italiani».
Per il giudice, infatti, «non esistano principi ricavabili da norme di rango primario che consentano al Comune di introdurre, diverse modalità di accesso alle prestazioni sociali agevolate, con particolare riferimento alla previsione di specifiche e più gravose procedure poste a carico dei cittadini di Stati non appartenenti all’Unione Europea».
Purtroppo, spiegano i legali delle associazioni, «nei ben tre anni di vigenza della delibera di Vigevano, molti cittadini stranieri che non potevano procurarsi i documenti illegittimamente richiesti dal Comune, sono stati obbligati a pagare importi molto superiori a quello che avrebbero dovuto versare sulla base dell’Isee presentato per accedere a servizi comunali come mensa o trasporto scolastico».
Molti di loro, chiariscono gli avvocati, «si sono visti negare addirittura le prestazioni statali che passano attraverso il vaglio del Comune. Tra le altre l’assegno di maternità di base»

▻https://www.globalist.it/news/2019/04/01/il-giudice-blocca-un-sindaco-della-lega-delibera-discriminatoria-contro-gl
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