Italy wants a 'black' beach vendor

Italy wants a 'black' beach vendor

World August 18, 2018 07:00

- The Italian minister Salvini wants to protect the beaches from long-standing immigrants who sell their goods there. The minister recently allocated 2.5 million euros for this. With that money, extra police are hired, overtime is paid out and funds are funded to keep out mainly black beach vendors. With partial success: on some beaches there is no longer a seller, but on others nothing has changed.

The beach town of Bovalino on the Ionian Sea in the southern tip of Italy is such a beach where the will of the Italian Minister of Internal Affairs Salvini is taken to the long run. An African salesman walks with hats and dresses slowly along the beach 'Beach Side'. It is hot and he is sweating an accident.

The things he wears are rather heavy, but he will have to go on with it for the time being, because hardly anyone buys anything. He has become accustomed to it and continues to toil. Another vendor stables his plastic toys on the sidewalk in front of the beach. He is skittish, says to come from Pakistan and hardly speaks Italian. He complains about the sale.

Another Pakistani has put his stuff out close to the Beach Side terrace before he goes around the beach as well. It is Onni, with his characteristic cap and his sunglasses on. The bathers know him. He has been here for almost twenty years and lives nearby.

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