Verona, the Cimbrian community, and beyond, explained to the students by the policeman of Cimbrian origins

Verona, as part of the training of student agents of the State Police, for some years now, the Department of Public Security has strongly wanted to include several hours of lessons relating to the Oscad, the Observatory against Discriminatory Acts, and to the activities that the Observatory itself, which operates at the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police, accomplishes this by providing valid support to people who are victims of discriminatory crimes, the so-called "Hate Crime", facilitating the submission of complaints and encouraging the emergence of these particular crimes; Furthermore, the Observatory carries out studies, analyzes and statistics, in order to provide effective tools for law enforcement activities and to prepare effective prevention campaigns.
The intense activity focuses on highly topical topics, such as violence and discrimination of all kinds; during the lessons, in fact, we focus on issues relating to stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination and racism, analyzing the legislation, which deals with "victims in conditions of particular vulnerability", i.e. all victims of discriminatory crimes, such as for example those attributable to gender violence, violence against "LGBT" people, violence towards minors or disabled people, racial-ethnic violence or violence towards linguistic minorities, as well as human trafficking.
The introduction of this important training course is handled directly by the Director of the Trevisi School, who also referring to various episodes related to current events, underlines the importance of the fact that these issues are addressed with future Policemen, who will soon be operating on the road and will find themselves faced with situations very similar to those analyzed during the lessons: "the teachings that you will receive during these lessons are not found in texts or codes and it will be important to always keep them in mind, because they will allow you to always carry out a service and not a simple job, especially in front of those who need our help more than others."
The one who, however, takes care of the different hours of lessons, remotely and in person, is the Superior Inspector Fabio Pozzerle; thanks to a specific course, to continuous in-depth seminars, organized by Oscad himself and held, among others, by lawyers and professors involved in various capacities on these topics and thanks to careful self-updating work linked to current events in our Country and beyond, Pozzerle, in service at the Peschiera School, explains to the students, involving them and encouraging them to participate, how important it is to work on themselves before on others, to understand things better and to increasingly improve our way of “being close to the people”.
Pozzerle begins his journey by underlining to the students how he himself has changed, thanks to the training received and thanks, over the years, to the continuous comparison with many girls and boys who attend the various courses.
During some meetings, in particular those dedicated to linguistic minorities, Inspector Pozzerle stops to talk with the students, coming from the most diverse areas of Italy, also about local realities and the Cimbrian community of "his" Lessinia, illustrating this beautiful reality, with a centuries-old history.
Pozzerle, coming precisely from those places - his family in fact originates from the Contrada Pozze of Velo Veronese - has always studied, also by listening to direct testimonies, the origins of his people and for this reason he loves to talk about traditions, history , of the culture and language of the community of which he proudly feels part.
Pozzerle starts from the community of Lessinia, also talking about the environment and territory of that land, to illustrate the reality of other recognized Italian linguistic islands, such as the Greek and Albanian ones of southern Italy or the Franco-Provençal and Occitan ones of Piedmont and Liguria, on which Italian legislation is always very careful.
At the end of the course, Trevisi is keen, in front of all the students, to thank Pozzerle for having been able to make a delicate and even complicated subject interesting and "alive" and reminds them that thanks to the words of the Inspector, Oscad teacher, will be able to protect in the best possible way all women and men who for any reason will be discriminated against.