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Opinion article published in August 2009 in Deia, Diario de Noticias de Gipuzkoa and Berria
Xenophobia and crime

by june fernández


In recent weeks there have been many reports in certain newspapers, signed by journalists who used to link immigration and crime, blaming open to young North Africans in an alleged increase in crime. They were responsible for an alleged rise in robberies with intimidation in the Bilbao Aste Nagusia, and are identified as the typical profile of offenders arrested in recent police operations in Donostia.

These news are based only on official data and rigorous in the account of individual policemen who disregard the recommendation of the regional ombudsman issued in 2004 not to provide the press with the origin of those arrested for not feeding xenophobia. The latest

Ikuspegi study, more than half the population thinks that the arrival of immigrants affects negatively safety. It is not uncommon, with news that young North Africans described Chavalit slapping or assaulting elderly to steal her necklace (I quote as published in certain media of wide circulation), much of the public internalize these guys are, per se

, potential offenders and also the worst sort.
chronic yielded the caricatures "more than reinforce prejudice and xenophobic stereotyping? At SOS Racism we have of course not. Furthermore, in contrast to reports serious as recently published by the Department of Justice, which states, less than 8% of young offenders are immigrants from the Maghreb. Read
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