Segregation wall

Via Anelli is a complex of six buildings in Padova, a rich city in the north of Italy, that were originally aimed to become student residence. However most of the apartments ended up being occupied by prostitutes and drug dealers and, with the increase of immigration, were rent to immigrants, both formal and not.

View of the Via Anelli "ghetto"

Via Anelli "ghetto" buildings

During the end of the 1990’s Via Anelli became the center for prostitution and drug dealing of the city. In the summer of 2006, after a mass riot for the control of drug market between gangs of immigrants from Morocco and Nigeria, the municipality decided to build a wall surrounding the “ghetto” and to place police check-point to the entrance of the complex.

Police check-point

A man walking

Inside via Anelli

Living space of the Via Anelli "ghetto"

Mosque in Via Anelli

Shady character inside a building

African immigrant inside a building