In presenting its 2025 annual report on Wednesday, the head of the Council’s Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) urged Italy to launch an independent enquiry into evidence that its police disproportionately targeted immigrants.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her deputy Matteo Salvini, who both lead far-right parties that base their appeal on law-and-order and the fight against illegal immigration, bluntly dismissed the suggestion.
League leader Salvini doubled down on Thursday, telling reporters in Rome that the anti-racism panel “should be ashamed,“ and calling it “another useless body paid for by Italian and European citizens, that produces rubbish in return.”
The Council of Europe did not respond to a request for comment.
The latest ECRI report was an overview of its activities in 2024 and did not specifically discuss the Italian situation.
However, in ECRI’s latest country-specific report in October, it flagged “numerous accounts of racial profiling by law enforcement officials, targeting especially Roma and people of African descent” in Italy.
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