Dear Friends:
This news is from the Times of India(10 03 2912)
:
Naval guards' arrest:indian hotels targated in italy.
-bhuban
: The detention of Italian naval guards turned bitter with La Destra ('The
Right'), a right-wing organisation, forcing Indian restaurants in Rome to down
shutters for a night as a mark of protest against the custody of their
personnel.
Flaunting posters that screamed 'Italy is with you', 'We miss you', 'Italy is
waiting for you', La Destra, supported by former Italian health minister
Francesco Storace, held demonstrations in front of Indian restaurants.
Later, Storace wrote on his blog: "Unfortunately, what we feared has happened.
Our two navymen were taken to jail. The speed of decision matches settling of a
condominium dispute". Talking to TOI, Ettore Coscarella, spokesman of La
Destra, said 50 members took part in the protest.
"We are neither against the Indian people nor harbour racist feelings. There
are no plans to conduct further demonstrations," he added.
Meanwhile, Gianluigi Limido, head of La Destra in Rome, claimed to have closed
down 10 Indian restaurants in Rome. He also put up posters asking people to
boycott Indian products.
But La Destra has no intention to boycott Indian products. "We just want our
soldiers to be freed. The whole country is with them," he said. The
organisation boasts of 20,000 followers in Rome and more than a lakh across
Italy.
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