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Rome prepares to demolish 200 illegal Gypsy camps
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| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 7, 2010 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Plans by Rome city officials to demolish up to 200 illegal Gypsy camps this week have raised fears by aid workers that thousands of Roma, including women and small children, will be forced on to the streets.
In the wake of France's controversial repatriation of Romanian Gypsies last month, Italian police backed by bulldozers will raze rudimentary camps in Rome built beneath flyovers and in wasteland, often by Romanian migrants.
Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, has cited the recent death of a Romanian child during a fire in one of the camps as an incentive for their demolition. "These are the terrible risks and dramas of the illegal camps that have existed in Rome for too long," he said.
Sveva Belviso, Alemanno's social policy assessor, said fewer than 1,000 people people were due to be evicted. "We will offer assistance to the young, old and sick," she said.
But the Red Cross warned that many more faced sleeping rough and losing their possessions.
"The number is in fact likely to be over 1,000 and with the city's financial straits and overflowing accommodation I wonder where they will put up and feed these people," said Mario Squicciarini. "What is worse is that when the bulldozers go in they often do not give you time to get your possessions out." |
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