Racist insults for skin color, four minors reported

Four underage girls, residing in the province of Rome, were denounced by the Police of Passo Corese (Rieti), for having committed alleged persecutory and defamatory acts, aggravated by the purposes of discrimination and racial hatred, against a peer of African origin. .

The minor, victim of the threats, also resident in the province of Rome, in recent weeks went to the Passo Corese police station in the company of a parent and said she had suffered, for months, repeated threats and harassment of a racial background , due to her dark complexion, as her mother is of African descent.

The young woman also reported being harassed by her peers near a bus stop, usually used to go to school in Rome.

Episodes of bullying and racism,

according to reports from the Rieti Police Headquarters, they had also extended to social networks.

Thanks to the investigations and testimonies collected by the Police, listening to some of the girl's peers who had witnessed the incidents, the four minors were identified and reported in a state of freedom to the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Juvenile Court of Rome.