In recent days, Ikram Jarmouni, a student from Modena, received the 'America Young Award for University Talent' at the Chamber of Deputies. While she was on her way to the capital for the award ceremony, she was the subject of a verbal aggression also with a racial background on the train to Rome on which she was traveling with a friend. To report it is the same Jarmouni - 22 years old.
Insults and threats on the train to Ikram Jarmouni, student awarded in the Chamber
Born in Modena and of Moroccan origin, human rights activist and master's student in Human Rights and Multilevel Governance at the University of Padua - in a post on Instragram on which she also published the video of what happened on the train.
"On Monday 8 May - she writes on social media - I was awarded as an Italian student of excellence in Parliament.
The same day, while I was on the train to Rome, I was attacked, insulted and threatened with death for the color of my skin. Neither the police nor the train conductors - he adds - intervened, despite having urgently called both. No attempt at identification has been made.
He could potentially be armed. This could have been a massacre. But this is Italy."
In the video that the young woman has relaunched on Instagram we see a man, surrounded by other passengers who invite him to stop, who addresses the young woman with vulgar and offensive epithets even with a racial background, shouting several times "gypsy" and also "I break your face".