Italy's Crackdown on Gypsies Reflects Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/11/AR2010101105815.html <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=u7bw8rbab&et=1103812888116&s=3805&e=001-5k8QOmWUUjL6cTVxsEoJ7nTKWgsFWLSO8vSvSK0gh_1hzLfZ3CMMXhEKv7I4iNk-TQ_VVgpHMz9GKUI6OhP0gwVrm8IF8pdEVBv2nEyjGwPD56ntQXhW_crhZWEIzIKf5v5a5xqp1S5AQYbTdCv-CxpY3kyR1GFQdCr7D3np8CKrmD57aIgcgqILrKMuCzfNnkP9Ukaj0xkzq1PcpWyCw==> This venerable city [Milan] long known for savory saffron risotto and the leggy models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish itself as something else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies. Anti-Gypsy campaigns in neighboring France have sparked international criticism, with officials there in recent months deporting more than 1,000 ethnic Roma - a clannish people migrating west in large numbers from Eastern Europe. But with great bravado, Milan is taking the lead in responding to Italy's own "Gypsy Emergency." Blaming rising crime on the new waves of Roma immigrants, authorities are moving to dismantle Milan's largest authorized Gypsy camp .. ..
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