Carabinieri police have said that
they have tracked down three youths suspected of attacking
Italian athlete Daisy Osakue by hurling an egg at her face near
Turin earlier this week, causing an eye injury.
The three, residents of Vinovo, La Loggia and Moncalieri,
have been reported to prosecutors for bodily harm and failure to
provide assistance.
The youths said the attack on the discus thrower, who was
born in Italy to Nigerian parents, was a prank and was not
motivated by racism.
One of the youths is the son of local councillor for the
centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
The attack on Osakue was associated to a series of recent
incidents of xenophobia in Italy.
The opposition PD has linked these episodes to Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini's tough talk on migrants.
Salvini, who is also deputy premier and leader of the
rightwing League party, has dismissed talk of a racism emergency
in Italy as nonsense.
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