Naples, the young migrant chef wounded by pellets: 'They laughed after hitting me'

To follow up on the values ​​of World Refugee Day on June 20, in Naples time is spent playing target shooting: a game in which the target is a non-EU citizen.
This is because in Naples the violence of organized crime and petty crime is not enough to keep tensions high, now it seems there is another type of violence: the delinquent, the criminal on duty who spends his time shooting the first passerby he comes across. The most serious episode is certainly the one involving Konaté Bouyagui, a twenty-two-year-old from Mali who arrived in Naples as a minor and as an asylum seeker and who today, with other non-EU citizens, has taken over a company and transformed a place in Chiaia into a multi-ethnic restaurant, “Kikana”, where other refugees work. Around one o'clock on Thursday night, Konaté was walking home when, along the last stretch of Corso Umberto towards Piazza Garibaldi, someone from a moving car pointed the barrel of a rifle at him. The gun was loaded with blanks but fired pellets: two shots hit the young man in the abdomen.
“I heard their laughter loudly when they pulled the rifle out of the car window and shot me,” Bouyagui later told police officers after being admitted to Loreto Mare, where he was treated and discharged with a ten-day prognosis. “They hit a boy who is the symbol of a reception process that works,” said Marika Visconti, President of Less Onlus. “What happened is probably the crude result of what is happening in Italy.” The president says that violence like this happens often, even if, unfortunately, it never comes to light. And she launched the opening of a reporting desk against racial violence. “A few days ago, an African boy was stabbed four times by his employer, a mechanic who had no intention of paying him. Then every day someone tries to run them over in the street with their car. A senseless black manhunt. This is why we need to raise our voices.”