Italy is a country that has lost its memory: addendum

Posted on July 13, 2008

From the European Roma Rights Centre website, a report “Security a la Italiana: Fingerprinting, Extreme Violence and Harassment of Roma in Italy”, which contains

a concise summary of a series of discriminatory legal and policy measures targeting Roma recently enacted by the right-wing Italian government, in place since the April 2008 elections. The report also includes the results of first-hand documentation conducted by the Coalition in Romani camps Italy at the end of May 2008, exploring the effects of these measures on members of Italy’s Roma and Sinti communities, including:

Illegal fingerprinting and photographing of Roma for the purposes of creating a database of all Roma in the country;

Police abuse, ill-treatment and forced evictions of Roma;

Extreme violence by non-state actors and the failure of Italian authorities to prosecute the perpetrators; and

Other forms of discrimination against Roma.

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