Testimonies
The site is managed by an editorial team that takes care of selecting the testimonials for publication. For this reason, a few days may pass between the time of filling in the form and its publication.
The text of the testimonials received is not modified. The testimonies are anonymous and the data published are: place, age, origin/descent.
Unpublished testimonials are part of the database used for statistical processing.
All of a sudden I felt a hand on my left shoulder
It happened in 2022 - I can't remember the exact date but I guess it was at the beginning of winter. I was stopped by the police right in front of the station, at the bus stop, where I was si…
I’m doing everything I can to get legal residence, but there's no way.
At the beginning of 2020 I was stopped by the police. They asked me for my ID but I had nothing; at the time I still hadn’t received a single document from the police station. Because I didn’t show t…
I’m going to eat at the food bank canteen.
In the first Covid-19 lockdown I was stopped at the railway station when I was going to get something to eat.
The Carabinieri asked me: Where are you going? I answered: I’m going to eat at the food…
Why the phone number?
One day in the summer of 2020, after the lockdown, I was out with a friend near the tower block. Two policemen came up and asked to see our ID. They asked for our phone numbers as well and I said to…
“There’s a communication for you”
The curfew started at 10 pm. I’d been watching a match at a friend’s house and after a while he took me and another friend home by car. A few minutes before 10 pm, on the way to my house, two carabin…