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When hard right Italian politician Matteo Salvini comes knocking on your door, cameras in tow, what do you do?
For Tunisian migrants in Italy the answer is: Take the fight to him on his own terrain of social media.
Salvini's League party posted a live video last month of the former minister of the interior knocking on the door of the Labidi family, who are Tunisian migrants. He then asked them through an intercom: "We heard rumors you are drug dealers - is that true? Let us in."
It was a stunt condemned as racist by other migrants and in response Tunisians in Italy have been uploading their own videos to social media explaining what they really sell and what they've brought to the country.
Ramzi Harrabi, who has lived in Sicily for over 20 years, was so shocked by the attack that he launched Facebook page Io Spaccio, where Tunisian migrants can say what they have given Italy in a positive way. It highlights their contributions to culture, community and food.
Ramzi says that since the 2018 election of a populist government he feels less comfortable living in Italy.
Salvini's video also led to the Tunisian ambassador to Italy, Moez Sinaoui, writing to the Senate speaker complaining of the politician's lack of respect.
The Io Spaccio Facebook page has been flooded with over 100 videos by migrants and many more messages.
Adel Chehida moved to Italy from Tunisia in 1999 and he hit out at Salvini in his video post. He said: "My advice to Mr Salvini is to study history because Tunisians and Italians have a common past and our shared Mediterranean culture makes us more similar than he claims."
Another woman said in a video: "I will never allow Salvini make my children feel inadequate because they have a Tunisian mother."