The Nice section of the League of Human Rights invites you to attend a lecture by Enzo Barnabà, this Tuesday, October 8 at 7 PM at Espace Association, Place Garibaldi.
In Aigues-Mortes, on August 17, 1893, the largest “pogrom” in all of contemporary French history took place. On that day, Italian workers working in the salt marshes were literally massacred by the local population. The result: around ten dead and a hundred injured, some seriously. This massacre marked the peak of anti-Italian violence perpetrated in France at the end of the nineteenth century.
After a first work, “The Blood of the Marshes,” published in 1993, Enzo Barnabà revisits this often overlooked episode in a book entitled “Death to the Italians.”
Coincidence? The same commune of Aigues-Mortes was during the summer of 2012 the scene of a manhunt against a dozen residents of Aigues-Mortes labeled as “Arabs.”
