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Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Raffaella Di Marzio. I'm here
to point out to OSCE, the risk that Italy experiments limitations
or violations of religious freedom for minorities.
For almost 20 years I've been studying and researching the phenomenon
and the spreading of religious and spiritual minorities in Italy
According to the data provided by CESNUR by Massimo Introvigne in 2012,
836 organized minorities, both religious and spiritual, are present in Italy.
For the last 15 years, my country has been witnessing
the growing of dangerous scenarios of intolerance against
religious minorities, as well as spiritual,
which are variously labelled and stigmatized as "cults",
"psycho-cults", destructive cults"
This ad hoc manufactured alarm was such that in 2006
the Ministry of Interior established an Anti-Sect Police Squad (SAS)
in order to investigate and monitor these groups.
I'm here to ask to Italian authorities :
to investigate, also through a Commission of Inquiry,
and check the constitutionality and legality
of the Anti-Sect Police Department
and the honesty of its activities,
particularly in regard to the contact persons it relies
upon to monitor religious and spiritual groups;
to ask also to verify if the Anti-Sect Police Squad,
in its finalities and operations,
is violating the constitutionally protected right
to profess one's own religion and beliefs;
finally I ask to Italian State
undertake strategies of reception and constructive dialogue
towards religious and spiritual minorities in Italy,
so to promote integration and pacific coexistence. Thank