"My biggest fear was for my dad because he was physically attacked, in a very violent way, they broke his cheekbone, a tooth and he is full of bruises", says Beatrice Ion, player of the Paralympic basketball national team, who suffered a racially motivated attack on Thursday 9 July in Ardea, near Rome. "More than afraid I felt helpless - he continues - because I could not do anything to help my father". Many expressions of solidarity for the Paralympic player of Romanian origin. "The vile racist aggression suffered by the athlete and his father cannot leave us indifferent", so Giuseppe Maria Milanese, president of Confcooperative Sanità and OSA Operatori Sanitari Associati. "We will ask you to act as testimonials in September," he concludes.
Paralympic basketball, racist attack on Beatrice Ion: her father injured
7/17/2020, 10:33:16 AM
The athlete: "I felt helpless, the greatest fear was for my father" he says (ANSA)"My biggest fear was for my dad because he was physically attacked, in a very violent way, they broke his cheekbone, a tooth and he is full of bruises", says Beatrice Ion, player of the Paralympic basketball national team, who suffered a racially motivated attack on Thursday 9 July in Ardea, near Rome. "More than afraid I felt helpless - he continues - because I could not do anything to help my fa...