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'Don't want to be next to a n**ger'

Latest racist episode on high-speed train from Milan to Trieste

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(ANSA) - Rome, October 22 - An Italian woman changed her train seat to move away from a black woman on Sunday, saying "I don't want to be near a n**ger", the black woman's mother said on Facebook Monday.
    The victim of the latest episode of racism was a 23-year-old woman of Indian origin, Shanti.
    "Yesterday afternoon I took my daughter to Milan's central station and she took the Frecciarossa (high-speed train) to Trieste," Shanti's mother said in her post.
    "Soon afterwards she sends me this message: 'I sat in my seat and the lady next to me says: but you're in this seat? And I say yes madam...and she, can I see your ticket...I showed it to her and she says well I don't want to be near a n**ger and she moved. Absurd'." Last week a Senegalese man was told by a bus passenger he had to move, on a coach heading from Trento to Rome, because of the colour of his skin.
   

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