Racist abuse of disabled basketball player gets hurt after trying to protect him

Beatrice Ion, the basketball player of the Italian paralypic national, was insulted last Thursday by racist phrases near her home in Ardea (Roma), by a man who then injured his father who tried to protect her.

She was 23 years old, of Romanian origin but resident in Italy for 16 years, who has told the story on Facebook. Don't tell me that racism doesn't exist, and you ignore the insults I'm made of because I'm disabled” has gone to post-Ion.

The basketball player arrived in Italy to fight the polio she had touched at the age of 3 months: “Living in Italy for 16 years, I have Italian citizenship here. I study in Universities, play basketball in carts with Italian nationals, and I consider myself completely Italian. Yet I was attacked. My father is in the hospital probably with a broken applet because they say we're strangers and poop who have to go back to their country”.

AGE: My mother and I were inside and some guy was screaming to get out. Dad was coming back from the usual walk and almost couldn't even talk to him, hit him with his head several times. He was screaming in front of the Carabinieri: I've got a criminal turriquum, your little disabled girl will catch him on the street and do me a job... It was really bad times. Don't tell me racism in Italy doesn't exist. I lived this day after 16 years, and I feel bad. Whoever attacked me is ashamed of it, we may be strangers, but we have more dignity than those who without doing anything should be even more ashamed of”.