(RAIR Foundation)—At Milan’s Cesare Beccaria juvenile detention center, a stark and unsettling statistic is forcing national reflection: approximately 70% of detained minors are Muslim, according to Italian authorities. The majority are second-generation immigrants—born in Italy to foreign parents, yet deeply alienated from Italian society, culture, and values.
This figure, confirmed by local officials and reported on July 22, 2025, underscores what many have long warned: Italy is facing a full-blown integration failure, with a growing underclass of disenfranchised youth, many of whom are increasingly drawn into criminal activity and vulnerable to Islamist radicalization.
A Generation Left Behind
The crimes most commonly committed by Muslim minors include robbery, drug trafficking, and violent assaults. Officials describe a disturbing pattern—young men from families with weak ties to Italian civic life, low educational achievement, and hostility toward Western norms. These are not newly arrived refugees or recent immigrants, but the children of immigrants, raised within Italy’s borders yet fundamentally disconnected from its identity.
Authorities now fear this alienation is not only contributing to crime but creating fertile ground for Islam to take root in Italy’s urban peripheries.
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