Italy politician urges Nazi policies for immigrants

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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/International/detail/Italy_politician_urges_Nazi_policies_for_immigrants.html?siteSect=143&sid=8498628&cKey=1196856471000&ty=ti

ROME (Reuters) - A local politician has shocked Italians and Jews by proposing that immigrants be treated with the same severity the Nazis used when they occupied the country.

Giorgio Bettio, a city councillor in the northern city of Treviso, said during a council meeting earlier this week: "With immigrants, we should use the same system the SS used, punish 10 of them for every slight against one of our citizens."

His comments revived memories of the 1944 Ardeatine Caves massacre, when Hitler ordered that 10 Italians be executed for each of the 33 German soldiers killed in a partisan attack against occupying forces on a Rome street.

Immigration has been a burning issue in the rich northern Veneto region where Treviso is located. Tensions have flared regularly between residents and immigrants, some of them seeking work in the area's factories and fields.

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1. so this creep is saying Nazis were right to murder Italians?

what a patriot.

[bumblebee1]

2. Patriot?

This guy couldn't be a patriot if he stood on a street corner wearing Tom Brady's uniform.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Aarrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!

Mussolini just smiled in his grave.

Unfortunately, every country has people like that. We have the BNP (ugh!)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Louigi Dobbsino?

[countryjake]

5. I had the same exact thought before I read the link...

the guys name is probably Luigi Dobbsolini.

[Sultana]

6. ....

:spray:

But on a serious note, Xenophobia is an ugly thing, immigrants contribute a lot the countries I which they reside. And when things go wrong they always blame the immigrants first x( :eyes: