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A Guinean woman has been
attacked in a bus in Rome by
angry passengers who told her she
was infected by Ebola and had to
get off the bus, Italian media
reports. She was taken to hospital
suffering from multiple bruises.
Fataomata Sompare, 26, was about to get off the bus on
Monday, said Il Messaggero, an Italian newspaper, as
cited by the Local.
A teenage girl who was on the bus with her friends saw
Sompare and began accusing her of having the deadly
virus. Then some of the teen’s relatives started beating the
woman.
“They told me that I had Ebola and that I had to get off
the bus,” said Sompare, who has been living in Italy for
four years.
People at a bus stop near Grotte Celoni Metro station in the
east of the city managed to save the woman, who suffered
multiple bruises after being beaten by passengers. The
police arrived and she was taken to hospital.
The incident was reported to public prosecutors by
Sompare’s lawyer.
“[She is] a victim of racism, which is now rampant in
this city,” the Sompare’s partner Alessandro Corbelli told Il
Messaggero. He added that the incident was “shameful”
and she had been attacked “only because she’s black.”
The incident is not the only example of Ebola hysteria in
recent days. In the US, Ebola-phobic parents sent a Maine
teacher on mandatory leave after he returned from Dallas,
where first victim of the virus in the country died. In
Mississippi, parents pulled their kids out of school because
of the principal’s trip to Zambia.
The death toll from the Ebola virus has reached 4,877
people for far, the World Health Organization said on
Wednesday.
According to the UN health body, 9,936 people in Guinea,
Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries worst-affected
by the virus, have contracted the disease.
If The Virus Gets To Italy It's Going To Be Really Nice So These Italians Would know Ebola isn't a laughing matter ... Racism at Its Highest
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