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14 ITALY REPORT Just in case I am attacked […].” 2 Another Romani man testified, “e attitude of the police changed after the murder. e murder was a turning point.” Many Roma of non-Romanian origin believe that the latest influx of Roma from Romania has jeopardised their situation. Several people affirmed that, since the arrival of Romanian Roma in recent years, the Italian people’s perception of Roma, which was already quite negative, has increasingly changed. Furthermore, the attitude of police and other public authorities have also transformed in a negative way. Not only non-Italian Roma noted a difference. One Italian Romani woman from Brescia declared, “e neighbours are closing their houses for fear and they pick on our kids. e Italian state wants to keep everything for itself, does not help the Roma, and does not help children. It helps other states, but not its own people.” 2 Coalition interview with a Romani man living in Camp Salviati. Rome, 28 May 2008.
2. POLITICAL CLIMATE/RACIST SPEECH BY POLITICIANS In Article 1, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), to which the Italian government is a Party, defines racial discrimination as “any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.” Within its obligations stemming from Article 2 of the ICERD, the Italian government should: “condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races, and, to this end: (a) Each State Party undertakes to engage in no act or practice of racial discrimination against persons, groups of persons or institutions and to ensure that all public authorities and public institutions, national and local, shall act in conformity with this obligation; […].” e April 2008 general elections were won by the right-wing conservative party Forza Italia, headed by Silvio Berlusconi, whose coalition partners include the anti-immigrant Northern League and the right-wing National Alliance party. e new government was constituted in May 2008. e head of the xenophobic political party Northern League, Umberto Bossi, and three other members of the party hold top seats in the new Cabinet, including control of the Ministry of Interior, headed by Mr Roberto Maroni, a long time political ally of Mr Berlusconi. e National Alliance, a party formed as a successor to Mussolini’s Fascists, is lead by Gianfranco Fini, who is also speaker of the lower chamber of parliament. Mr Fini has a record of public anti-Romani speech, stemming back to November 2007 when anti-Romani actions last flared up in Italy. 3 e new government has capitalised on Italians’ fears about Gypsies, immigrants and security, and despite its obligations under international human rights law, specifically fuels already harsh sentiment with constant anti-Romani messages widely published in the media. On 11 May 2008, Minister of Interior Roberto Maroni stated publicly that “All Romani camps will have to be dismantled right away, and the inhabitants will be either expelled or 3 At that time, the ERRC sent a letter to the Prosecutor of Rome, Italy’s National Office Against Discrimination, General Prosecutor and Journalists Order, requesting that each office open an investigation into hate speech by Mr Fini who had publicly remarked that Roma considered “theft to be virtually legitimate and not immoral” and felt the same way about “not working because it has to be the women who do so, often by prostituting themselves.” Mr Fini was also quoted as having claimed that Roma “have no scruples about kidnapping children or having children [of their own] for purposes of begging.” ere has been no response to the ERRC letter since that time. For more information, see: http://www.errc.org/db/02/84/m00000284.pdf. 15 SECURITY A LA ITALIANA
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14<br />
ITALY REPORT<br />
Just in case I am attacked […].” 2 Another Romani man testified, “e attitude of the<br />
police changed after the murder. e murder was a turning point.”<br />
Many Roma of non-Romanian origin believe that the <strong>la</strong>test influx of Roma from Romania<br />
has jeopardised their situation. Several people affirmed that, since the arrival of Romanian<br />
Roma in recent years, the Italian people’s perception of Roma, which was already quite<br />
negative, has increasingly changed. Furthermore, the attitude of police and other public<br />
authorities have also transformed in a negative way.<br />
Not only non-Italian Roma noted a difference. One Italian Romani woman from Brescia<br />
dec<strong>la</strong>red, “e neighbours are closing their houses for fear and they pick on our kids. e<br />
Italian state wants to keep everything for itself, does not help the Roma, and does not help<br />
children. It helps other states, but not its own people.”<br />
2 Coalition interview with a Romani man living in Camp Salviati. Rome, 28 May 2008.