Cagliari, no house for rent in Akash because he's a foreigner: "They throw him down the phone, let's help him"

For two years he has had a regular full-time permanent contract as assistant chef chef de partie, he works for a well-established and solid business, the Cousinà on Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Speak Italian well. But Akash Ahmed Ajem is unable to find a house to rent in Cagliari : the owners questioned, when they understand that he is a foreigner, interrupt the telephone conversation. He needs a regular domicile, with an apartment of acceptable size, which constitutes a guarantee to be able to bring his wife and little daughter to Sardinia from Bangladesh, his native country. The family reunion is denied by the "mistrust", if it can be called that, which arises from the fact that he is not a community citizen.

Even the attempts of his employer, the Cagliari-based entrepreneur Graziano Inconi, proved to be useless: «After the first telephones were knocked down, I intervened with the owners and tried to offer guarantees, explaining that Akash is one of my employees, who is a hard worker, who has no salary problems, but nothing: he is a foreigner». And that, apparently, is enough to make him an unreliable tenant. "If I had a house, I would have given it to him," adds Inconi. Hence the appeal: the young Bangladeshi worker needs a two-room or three-room apartment, possibly not far from the workplace. So in the historic centre, «but Sant'Avendrace and Is Mirrionis are also very good», underlines the restaurateur: «He is a formidable boy, he deserves the right to a house».