Canada. President Trudeau publicly apologizes for the treatment of Italian immigrants after 1939, interned in concentration camps during the Second World War, for fear that they might act as spies for the fascist government. Something similar had already happened, with an apology to the 22,000 members of the Japanese community in Canada, also interned for the same reason, with an apology presented in 1988 (and compensation for each). For Italian-Canadians, an apology arrived in 2021 (without compensation). One reason is perhaps (conjecture) that there were actually several documented cases of Italians acting as spies, more frequently than in the case of the Japanese. In his speech, Trudeau specifically cites the case of Giuseppe Visocchi, who was taken while attending a wedding in Montreal for examination and verification, but was interned in a camp, where he remained for several years, without his family being informed.
