Turin, Italy: Police stops young Senegalese boy at the train station: "Your bike is too beautiful, where did you steal it?"
The nightmare of Cheikh in Italy for three years: the bike had been offered to him by his Italian family to go to work, but he has to move around with the purchase receipt in his pocket to convince everyone that it is really his. "If I was white skin it would not happen" His friends carry the bus subscription ticket in their wallets; but Cheikh , 19, rather carries the receipt of his new bicycle , too beautiful for a black-skinned boy of Senegalese origin who arrived in Italy as a lone minor. He needs to prove that the bicycle is his, and that he has not stolen it. He recently needed the receipt a few days ago at Porta Nuova where the teenager had left his folding bike for a moment, an expensive gift from the family who welcomed him after participating in the project "widespread refuge" promoted by the diocese of Turin. When he came back to pickup the bike, for a fast ride in order to avoid missing the train he was to go home with, he was however stopped by a p...