On 23 January 2010, the students of Rosarno marched through the streets of the city where Africans migrants have been expelled after being attacked by local residents armed with guns and sticks on 8 January 2010 and on the following days. Nowadays just very few Africans still lives in Rosarno, southern Italy.
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