The blue discus thrower spoke about the incident while she was shopping in Turin and had to show her Guardia di Finanza card: “It’s racial profiling, based on preconceptions”
Bad episode for Daisy Osakuediscus thrower of the Italian national team, who told a serious story on social media episode of discrimination lived in a shop in Turin. “Venture moment,” she began on her Instagram stories, describing an event that deeply upset her. It all started with a quiet Sunday pre-Christmas shopping when she was asked, not too delicately, to pay for the cheap product she was holding in her hand. “They thought I was stealingbecause she is black”, the athlete vented on social media.
the dynamics of the facts
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The episode occurred in the Apple Store on via Roma, in the heart of Turin. Daisy Osakue had ventured into the shop for buy an adapter for his new cell phone. After selecting the product on the upper floor, she went down to the lower floor to evaluate further purchases, including new headphones. Just as she was going down the stairs, however, a security guard approached her to ask her about pay immediately the products in your possession.
Incredulous, Osakue tried to explain that she would pay after she finished choosing the other items she was interested in. However, theinsistence of the employee and his aggressive attitude generated a scene that immediately attracted the attention of other customers and sales staff. “Let’s be serious, let’s face it. You blocked me and not other people with things in hand, why?” asked the athlete. After qualifying as a financier and after showing her Fiamme Gialle card, the security guard he never replied again. The intervention of a shop employee, who confirmed the possibility of paying also on the lower floor, put an end to the incident, but the bitterness remained.
The outburst on social media
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After the incident, the champion indulged in a long monologue on social media: “Finding myself in this situation bothered me very, very much. I understand that the employee was working, I understand that it is Christmas and there is chaos in the shops , I understand that there are thefts, but ‘racial profiling’ remains ‘racial profiling’ and when there are more people you demonstrate that you rely on preconceptions and not facts. The Apple guys who apologized were very nice”, concluded the Italian.
the previous ones
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Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time Daisy Osakue has found herself at the center of incidents of blatant discrimination. In 2018, while returning home to Moncalieri, it was hit in the face by an egg thrown from a moving car. The attack caused a corneal injury which risked compromising her participation in the European Athletics Championships. “I feared it was acid,” she declared at the time, underlining the discriminatory nature of the gesture: “They mistook me for a prostitute.”
“Daisy was the victim of an attack that I intend to define in the only way possible, that is, imbecile and cowardly“, was the comment of the president of the Athletics Federation Alfio Giomi at the time. “Italian Athletics has among its founding values integration and our movement has always worked so that all those who live it feel it always in the right place. Daisy, in turn, is a cornerstone of our athletics, proudly blue since her debut, and has always defended civil rights. I am sure that all of Italian Athletics is ideally at his side at this moment express full solidarity and support her in her dream of being an Italian athlete.”
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