Via Anelli Wall

The wall on the Via Anelli (also called wall of Padua, Italian: Muro di Padova) was a three- meter-high steel wall with a length of 84 meters in the Italian city of Padua, which in a dorm of mostly African asylum seekers on the Via Anelli district Stanga (Padova -east, near the Via Venezia), a predominantly migrant inhabited district, surrounded from August 2006 to 2007.

The construction of the wall, which is provided with a checkpoint, was carried out within two days and attracted international media interest. The city government justified the Wall as "the only short-term solution " to combat drug trafficking and crime. Opponents saw this solution in the action of the city discriminatory ghettoization. 2007, the wall was removed after all the inhabitants of the house assured of appropriate accommodation and this had been abandoned.