The following video report discusses an attack on police by migrants outside an asylum center in the southern Italian province of Foggia. Two officers were injured, but were spared even worse by the fortunate arrival of additional police squadrons. One shudders to think what might have happened if reinforcements hadn’t shown up in time…

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below are two articles about the incident in Foggia. From ANSA:

50 Migrants Attack 2 Police At Foggia camp (ANSA) — Foggia, October 8 — Some 50 migrants attacked and injured two police outside a migrant camp in Foggia on Monday, police union SAP said. SAP said the migrants punched and kicked the officers at the asylum seeker processing centre at Borgo Mezzanone after the police stopped a 26-year-old Gambian who was then arrested for trying to run them over. SAP asked for “greater safeguards for police operating on the street, such as tasers for example”. The officers suffered wounds that doctors said would heal in 15 and 30 days respectively.

Also from ANSA:

Gambian Who Attacked Police Risks Expulsion First effect of Salvini decree (ANSA) — Rome, October 9 — A Gambian migrant who attacked police at a migrant centre in Foggia risks expulsion under the new Salvini migrant and security decree, the interior ministry said Tuesday. Omar Jallow, an asylum seeker who obtained humanitarian protection after an appeal to the magistrature, was to have had his status re-examined by the Foggia territorial commission. But under Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s new decree he risks being stripped of the status and being deported, the interior ministry said.

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