We have a low percentage of people of color (more or less 2% of the total population, we reach 3-4% if we add Asians and South Americans who we don't consider people of color), so we have a low percentage of violence on people of color, and not from our police. The last case that had a big resonance was the murder of a young South American man (for the life of me I can't remember from where he was from), killed by two other 20-somethings.
In our country violence against POCs has not the same degree of severity it has in the USA or Canada, and police violence is not the main problem (also probably because our cops are trained differently), so the BLM stuff reached only the ones that do activism to live or spend a lot of time on the internet. People here know that there have been protests against violence toward POCs, but they don't have a clue about the
movement behind these protests.
At the Economist are full of shit. We have three Brazilian players, who clearly aren't black enough for their taste. It's evident that they don't have a clue about how Italian society is structured and works.
Eh, who knows? I have to admit that Mario Balotelli was annoying with his childish antics, but if Miryam Sylla and Paola Egonu will keep scoring for our national volleyball team, I don't think the right will say 'no'.
Also, I find Egonu's Venetian accent very endearing.