In a throwback to the Second World War, Italy's new Interior Minister, Roberto MaroniRoberto Maroni , has announced an initiative to fingerprint all Roma adults and children living...
Thousands of Roma Gypsy children and adults will be fingerprinted from Sunday in the Italian capital, Rome, despite strong criticism from European and religious organisations. The Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, is reported to have proposed that...
Another man, laden with a backpack and shopping, and probably a tourist, strides purposefully along while a boy reaches into the pocket of his shorts. Both youngsters are pickpockets and both are also almost certainly the offspring of Roma gipsies...
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi travelled to the southern Italian city of Naples on Tuesday to discuss the city's chronic rubbish crisis with local authorities and to survey the current situation. The Italian leader is believed to be...
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi pledged Tuesday to end the garbage crisis in Naples and the surrounding area by the end of July. Berlusconi said during a visit to the southern Italian city that the government is "very close" to signing deals with...
Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that it is acceptable to discriminate against Roma on the grounds that they are thieves. The judgment, made public yesterday, comes amid a nationwide clampdown on the Roma community by Silvio Berlusconi's...
News Source: The Financial Express
| about 1 year ago
subverting democracy The great paradox of democracy is that the political freedom it needs to thrive also gives succour to its enemies. A democratic society must tolerate, up to a point, the activity of politicians whose instincts are fundamentally...
Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana hit out at the religious values of the Italian government on Monday as the furore over a plan by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni to fingerprint all children in the country's gypsy camps rumbled on. ''The 'Catholic'...
Police in the northern Italian city of Verona have arrested eight Roma Gypsies who allegedly coerced their own and other children into carrying out burglaries. The eight suspects are accused of having forced the children to burgle apartments, beating,...
Police on Monday arrested eight Croatian gypsies on charges of forcing children to commit hundreds of burglaries in northern Italy, adding fuel to an ongoing furore over a government plan to fingerprint all children in the country's gypsy camps.
Resentment towards Roma in Italy has grown�following the establishment of many illegal camps in recent years. Some camps outside Naples were even torched by locals.� Some 160,000 Roma are estimated to live in Italy, 70,000 of whom are...
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