Europe's gypsies

Romanian criminals, mostly of Roma origin, have horrified the EU, which is why Romanian citizens are driven away from EU states.
Italy is threatening to make the law harsher and settle visas for the Romanians who want to travel there. Since 2006 until now in Italy there were arrested 76 Romanians for murder, 475 for rape, 700 for trafficking in humans and prostitution and no less than 20,000 for theft. The mayor of Rome warned Bucharest authorities that, unless they took the responsibility for the Romanian migrants, the issue might be tackled at EU level. Sandro Gozi, a president of the migration committee in the Italian Parliament, told ZIUA that Romanians might get to travel on visas again. The official pointed to the lack of any communication with Romanian MPs on Romanian migrants.
On the other hand, Codrut Seres has summoned the Italian ambassador to the foreign affairs committee in order to reproach him for the "xenophobe" attitude of the mayor of Rome.
Another measure Italy may take against all the Romanians might be repatriation on grounds of public security. The Party of Romanians in Italy is having demonstrations today in Rome to protest against Italian press offensives against the Romanian community.
Expelled because of threatening public security
Extremist organizations used Molotov cocktails against Rome people tents, asking them to leave. The Italian interior minister announced he was analyzing the idea to allow local authorities to expel community citizens, mostly Romanians, thought to be a menace against security in Italy.
Walter Veltron, a mayor of Rome, mentioned he asked the Italian interior minister Giuliano Amato and the Rome prefect Carlo Mosca to modify the normative decree, according to which repatriation is allowed only in case of threat against national security. Amato said he was thinking about meeting the Rome mayor's request and granting authorities with the right to expel community citizens if they were a threat against public security. The Italian minister is taking it for a means to help calm strain down in certain quarters where immigrants commit many crimes and also to fight against ultranationalist attitude, headed mostly against Roma people, an attitude that has lately been growing in Italy.
The community citizen status provides Romanians with the right to enter Italy. The Italian minister said he was standing by those heading his country to get jobs, but he outlined the need for means not to grant free access to those wishing to commit crimes. Amato claimed it was just a project for the time being, since it was not clear under which circumstances an EU citizen might be expelled from one member state. Last June the Italian minister released a report describing Romanians together with the Moroccans and Albanians as the most dangerous criminals in Italy.
The great migration
Due to Romania's EU membership and the elimination of visas, Romanian criminals have lately been heading mostly Spain and Italy. This is the reason why some gangs specialized in thefts are no longer here. This is what fuels the perception according to which criminality has been diminishing. Our criminals didn't retire, they just changed their action place for Spain and Italy. But when they are caught and sent home, criminality will have a significant growth. The latest event involving Romanians took place last week, when 1 Romanian was killed and 2 were severely injured by gun bullets in a quarter in northern Rome. (...)

Bogdan Galca
Ziua wednesday 3 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english