Indian businesses in Italy  targeted in retaliation for detention of Italian naval guards.

“KOCHI: The detention of Italian naval guards turned bitter with La Destra (‘The Right’), a right-wing organisation, forcing Indian restaurants in Rome to down shutters for a night as a mark of protest against the custody of their personnel.

Flaunting posters that screamed ‘Italy is with you’, ‘We miss you’, ‘Italy is waiting for you’, La Destra, supported by former Italian health minister Francesco Storace, held demonstrations in front of Indian restaurants.

But La Destra has no intention to boycott Indian products. “We just want our soldiers to be freed. The whole country is with them,” he said. The organisation boasts of 20,000 followers in Rome and more than a lakh across Italy.”

Comment:

This case shows a different aspect. The crowd is intimidating Indian businesses in retaliation for a political/military issue.

I can only imagine what would happen if an Indian crowd were to intimidate Italians in India, because they disagreed with Italian government policies or actions.  First, it would never happen.

And if it did, the international media would descend in a swarm, the targets would be plastered on the cover of TIME magazine and India would be hauled in front of a human rights abuses tribunal.

An international lawyer would be dispatched to sue the government and bankrupt it (no leftist worries about bankrupting poor people when they are suing governments; they only worry about it when the government spends money on behalf of businesses…not, let me add, because I approve of that, either).

The point I am making is, notice how a problem in one area is solved by intimidation in the public arena?

Just as, in the Gupta case, something that can’t be won on the merits is settled through media framing  and an aggressive judge, with an agenda.