Italian filth

by Will, 5 July 2008

This is like the Shoah, the Holocaust,” says Vanda Colombo as her 11 children splash around in an inflated paddling pool in the searing heat of a Gypsy camp on the outskirts of Verona. “The Nazis exterminated Gypsies as well as Jews, and this kind of discrimination is how it started. If they come here and try to fingerprint our children we will stop them.”

Italian MPs are coming under pressure from international agencies to refuse to confirm the state of emergency being used by the Berlusconi Government to bring in the fingerprinting. Amnesty International believes that the measures break at least two articles of the European Convention of Human Rights — the right to a private life and the right to non-discrimination.

Comments

  1. Alan

    Saturday 5 July 2008 at 16:20

    Berlusconi is the biggest supporter of Israel in the EU, of course.

  2. hakmao

    Saturday 5 July 2008 at 16:30

    This is relevant?

  3. Will

    Saturday 5 July 2008 at 16:33

    Also meaningless shite.

    Spoon Alan’s eyes out and shit in the holes.

  4. Barbara Meinhoff

    Sunday 6 July 2008 at 17:21

    Roma women are also still being sterilised in the Czech Republic without their prior knowledge.

    CNN next week ‘Trial of a Child Denied’

  5. A. Saucer (actually dirigible)

    Monday 7 July 2008 at 10:02

    Shurely if the whole of Italy was fingerprinted this wouldn’t be a problem and it would help with the provision of welfare?