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Three Romanians were in hospitals in Rome yesterday - one of them seriously injured - after being attacked by a masked, club-wielding gang on Friday night in the latest escalation of racial tension in Italy following the beating to death of a naval captain's wife.

 

The violence, condemned by local politicians, came as authorities in Milan carried out the first expulsions of Romanians under new legislation that came into effect on Friday allowing for the removal of EU citizens judged to be a threat to public security. Italian television showed four men being hustled aboard an airliner by police after nightfall.

 

Emotions were again running high yesterday at a funeral service in Rome for Giovanna Reggiani, the 47-year-old woman who was discovered fatally injured in a ditch on Tuesday after being savagely attacked. A young Romanian has been arrested and jailed. He has admitted snatching her bag, but denies beating and sexually assaulting her.

 

A thousand people packed into the church, in a well-heeled district of the capital, for an ecumenical service conducted by a Protestant pastor and the Italian navy's Roman Catholic chaplain. Large numbers gathered outside, many of them tearful, middle-aged women.

 

Ms Reggiani, though married to a Catholic, was a member of Italy's tiny Protestant community, the Waldensians. Her husband, the commander of the navy's minesweeping squadron, arrived at the church holding a single red rose. Those who sat nearby said that, throughout the service, he muttered over and again: 'It's not fair'.

 

Ms Reggiani's death has profoundly shocked the Italian middle classes. She was robbed, stripped of most of her clothes and ferociously beaten in a lonely part of northern Rome, but one that was until recently considered safe and respectable enough for officers' married quarters. In just a few years, it has become a haunt for prostitutes and pimps, dotted with encampments set up by the latest wave of immigrants from eastern European.

 

Bulldozers yesterday moved in to destroy the one where Reggiani's alleged killer, Nicolae Mailat, a shepherd-turned-labourer, lived with his mother. They and some 50 to 60 other Roma occupied a string of fragile shacks hidden in a copse.

Another makeshift settlement, in a supermarket car park on the other side of Rome, was the target of Friday night's attack. Yesterday, there were still pools of blood on the ground.

 

An eyewitness, who gave her name as Cristina,t said she had come out of the supermarket to see six to eight men arrive, carrying metal bars, staves and knives. Their faces were concealed by balaclavas and motorcycle helmets.

 

The most seriously injured was Emil Marcu, 47. Doctors said he had a deep stab wound in the back, but his life was not in danger.

 

A spokesman for a newly founded far-right group, Fabio Sabbatani Schiuma, said he condemned the attack but called it 'the product of a climate of exasperation'. Anti-foreigner graffiti on the walls of the surrounding, working-class area echoed his words. One woman said: 'We've had enough of them. My dad was mugged for his pension just at the end of this road.'

 

The vast majority of the 560,000 Romanians who have poured into Italy since visa restrictions were lifted five years ago have come to work. But the government says they account for a disproportionate share of crime, including more than five per cent of murders.

 

Many of the recent arrivals have come to Rome where they live in sub-human conditions, often by the banks of the Tiber river. Others have made their way to other cities like Milan where the authorities said yesterday that another 12 expulsions had been authorised by judges.

 

Source: The Observer

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So Italians dont commit crimes then....? What absolute fukkin' bollocks..... <_<

 

Could you imagine what would've happened had the authorities in America 70 or 80 years ago done something similar every time "La Cosa Nostra" (ie, The Mafia...) committed a crime and started expelling Italians from the US, how many people of Italian extraction would still be around in places like New York....? The Italians seem to forget that many of their ancestors were treated like second-class citizens as well when they migrated to places like the US to find work and a better life for themselves.... So now they treat the Romanians the way their own people were treated.. How ironic..... -_-

like it or not.... its a fact that if a crime is committed by a foreigner in any country, its seen as worse then if it had been perpetrated by one of their own.

 

 

like it or not.... its a fact that if a crime is committed by a foreigner in any country, its seen as worse then if it had been perpetrated by one of their own.

 

Well, it damn well shouldn't be seen like that, crime is crime and it is utterly hypocritical of them as a people to, on the one hand. complain about their culture always being seen in terms of "La Cosa Nostra" or "The Godfather", and then for them to turn around and make those very same sorts of assumptions about others....

Well, it damn well shouldn't be seen like that, crime is crime and it is utterly hypocritical of them as a people to, on the one hand. complain about their culture always being seen in terms of "La Cosa Nostra" or "The Godfather", and then for them to turn around and make those very same sorts of assumptions about others....

 

nah.... its normal to hate a stranger more then a known person.

nah.... its normal to hate a stranger more then a known person.

 

Well, by that standard, then unless it's a family member or a friend committing a crime, surely ALL criminals are strangers..... I dont personally know the bloke who burgles my flat or mugs me in the streets, so surely then they are a "stranger" are they not....?

 

 

 

Well, by that standard, then unless it's a family member or a friend committing a crime, surely ALL criminals are strangers..... I dont personally know the bloke who burgles my flat or mugs me in the streets, so surely then they are a "stranger" are they not....?

 

oh stop being so pedantic, you know exactly what i mean and rightly or wrongly thats the way it is.

like it or not.... its a fact that if a crime is committed by a foreigner in any country, its seen as worse then if it had been perpetrated by one of their own.

 

True you ain't going to $h!t on your own doorstep.

oh stop being so pedantic, you know exactly what i mean and rightly or wrongly thats the way it is.

 

Only because of people's totally bigoted attitudes, which is the whole issue here....

 

I mean seriously are you gonna somehow prefer it if your daughter is gang raped by a bunch of white, English guys to a bunch of Bangladeshis or Africans....??? Dont be so stupid.... <_<

 

Rape is RAPE, it aint better or worse for the individual WOMAN concerned if she's raped by a local or by a migrant FFS.... Like DUUUUUUUHHHHHHH In fact, surely being raped or seuxally assaulted by someone you once thought a close friend or a family member would actually be the worst thing to occur, because it aint just rape, it's betrayal as well....

 

And you know, when Italian society gets up off its bigoted, hypocritical arsehole and actually starts prosecuting the MANY cases of rape, buggery and abuse that occur in Catholic boys homes and catholic churches all over Italy with the same vigour that they;ve used against these migrant guys, instead of sweeping these scandals under the rug, then maybe they can get on their high horse about what a few Romanian immigrants might get up to..... <_<

 

Yeah, always blame the "stranger" for all the ills that exist within a society.... Bull$h!t.... <_< Italian society was rotten to the core and totally corrupt LONG before any Romanians turned up... Might I suggest you watch a few Italian films such as "La Scorta" or "Romanzo Criminale" to get a picture of the corruption that did and always has existed.....

 

And dont get me started on that thoroughly evil b/astard Silvio Berlusconi.....

True you ain't going to $h!t on your own doorstep.

 

Well Clare, that just aint true and you know it... How many cases of child abuse, spousal abuse and spousal rape occur within the family home on a daily basis...? That sounds VERY much like "$h!tting on your own doorstep" to me, and we'll never be able to actually quantify the vast majority of it because it all goes on in secret and never gets talked about, and prosecuted very rarely.....

 

To me, the sheer betrayal of a family member doing that sort of vile act to someone they claim to "love" is a hell of a lot worse than a stranger doing it.....

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