During Friday prayers in the northeastern Italian city of Monfalcone, hundreds of men are forced to pray in a concrete parking lot. They are just a fraction of the city's Muslims who since November have been banned from praying inside their two cultural centres by Monfalcone's far-right mayor. Immigrants make up a third of this city of 30,000 inhabitants outside Trieste, most of them Bangladeshi Muslims who began arriving in the late 1990s to build cruise-liners for ship builder Fincantieri, whose Monfalcone shipyard is Italy's largest. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES