(ANSA) - UDINE - ''In the critical and painful moment that we
are all experiencing since the Paris attacks, Europe and the
West are still thinking of reacting to this threat using
Islamophobia and planning another military response. I feel that
if this attitude were to prevail, we would face an endless
series of attacks''. That's what Slovenian writer and Goran
Vojnovic said in Udine, where the author presented the film and
the book ''Cefuri Raus! (Scum from South go home!)'', published
in Italian by Forum Editrice (Udine), translated by Patrizia
Raveggi.
The author met the public at the cinema Visionario in the
capital town of Friuli, where he was introduced by Norma
Zamparo, editorial coordinator of Forum, translator Raveggi and
Antonella Nonino, City Councillor for Decentralisation. During
the meeting, before the film screening, Vojnovic spoke with the
experts Roberto Dapit and Ales Doktoric. Both the novel ''Cefuri
Raus!'', which is part of the new series ''(S)confini'', with
which Forum opens to fiction, and Vojnovic's movie based on the
same novel, address the issue of the rejection of those who are
perceived as ''different'' and deals with the difficult
integration process of ''Cefuri'', that's how were called those
who arrived in Ljubljana from southern republics of the former
Yugoslavia - with a derogatory term (slang word similar to
Italian ''Terroni'').
Even today, Europe has to deal with the fear of someone who's
perceived as ''different'' in the current migrant crisis, and in
some countries, including Slovenia, anti-immigrant walls are
being built. ''I am obviously opposed to fences that Slovenia is
building along its border with Hungary - Vojnovic said - but it
must be said that these barriers can be built right where you
find borders that were never opened, because until now the idea
of a Europe based on peoples never became reality and the
borders between countries have never been eliminated''.
States such as Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, ''which are left
alone by Europe as it happened before to Italy and Greece''
respond using barriers, said Vojnovic, ''because this reflects
the EU's lack of cohesion even in seeking shared solutions to
problems''. Vojnovic said that ''it's the moment of truth for
Europe, which is going in the wrong direction and should realise
that it has not only a financial problem, but also and above all
a serious identity problem''. (ANSA).
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