Italy starts rounding up Romanian immigrants (Woman's murder pushes Italy over the edge)

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | November 3, 2007 | Malcolm Moore in Rome and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels

[Stoat]

Italy starts rounding up Romanian immigrants

By Malcolm Moore in Rome and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
 

Last Updated: 3:07am GMT 03/11/2007

 

 

Italy has begun rounding up thousands of Romanian immigrants for deportation after passing a new "public order and security" law.

• Death of Italian woman brings tensions to crescendo

  Masgras Neculai, 30, a petty thief, was named as the first Romanian who would be expelled under the new law, which allows anyone who is considered "dangerous" to society to be sent home.

  	Police in Rome have begun rounding up Romanians

  The law was rushed through the Italian cabinet on Wednesday after huge public outcry following the savage murder of Giovanna Reggiani, a 47-year-old Italian woman, allegedly by a Romanian man.
  
  The decree has now been officially published and has come into force immediately.

  Police have begun combing immigrant ghettos and arresting Romanians without permits.

  Government ministers have vowed to return 5,000 Romanians to their home country in the next few weeks.

  The move appeared to have the blessing of the European Union.

  Franco Frattini, the European commissioner for justice, freedom and security, said: "What has to be done is simple. Go into a nomad camp in Rome for example, and ask them: 'Can you tell me where you live?'

  "If they say they do not know, take them and send them home to Romania. That is how the European directive works.

  It is simple and safe. Romania cannot say they will not take them back, because it is an obligation that is part of being a member state of the EU."

  He also urged Italy to pull down the camps to prevent any Romanians from returning.

  However, the relevant European directive specifically states that expulsions should not be targeted at any ethic group, and that "the personal conduct of the individual concerned must represent a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society".

  Previous criminal convictions are not grounds enough for deportation, it adds, and deportees must be given one month's notice.

  Nello Rossi, the head of Italy's National Magistrates Association, said that each expulsion would have to be justified, and that "there cannot be mass indiscriminate expulsions".

  He said: "The new law does not appear to conform to our own constitution or to the European law which recognises the right of European citizens to circulate freely and stay within the territory of any member state."

  The Italian home office said each Romanian would be brought before a justice of the peace to plead his case before being transported home on planes or buses.

  The Romanian government said that it accepts that any violent offenders should be repatriated.

  While waiting for transport, Romanians will be held in one of 13 detention centres.

  Twenty Romanians were arrested in Rome, another 10 in Turin and handfuls from the rest of the country, while makeshift shacks were torn down. A team of Romanian police has arrived to assist.

  The move has enormous public support. A survey on Sky television in Italy showed 83 per cent of people backed the deportations.

  More than 550,000 Romanians, or 15 per cent of the immigrant population, have arrived in Italy since 2002.

  Walter Veltroni, the Rome mayor, has claimed that 75 per cent of all crimes in the capital this year have been carried out by Romanians.

  In contrast, petty crime in Romania has dropped by 26 per cent.

[Stoat]

Police have begun combing immigrant ghettos and arresting Romanians without permits.

And the reason why we can't do that here in the USA with "our" illegals is what, exactly?

• Walter Veltroni, the Rome mayor, has claimed that 75 per cent of all crimes in the capital this year have been carried out by Romanians.

  In contrast, petty crime in Romania has dropped by 26 per cent.

So, it appears that the criminals are moving to Italy......

[Stoat]

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[CzarNicky]

They need to do this to muslims.

[Stoat]

They need to do this to muslims.

Hopefully this effort by our Italian Friends will demonstrate to the entire Western world that no nation needs to put up with being overrun by foreigners who refuse to assimilate to the national culture, create crime in overwhelming percentages and degrade the quality of life for the people who made the country what it is.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Europe Pinglist.

Appreciated, Stoat.

[Stoat]

Anger at EU immigrants explodes after woman's brutal death - Times Online

Giovanna Reggiani, 47, the wife of a naval captain, died last night after being raped, beaten and thrown into a drainage ditch as she walked home in the dark from a railway station in a suburb of Rome. Her assailant had smashed her face into an unrecognisable pulp with a stone before leaving her for dead, police said.

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The furious reaction to the attack on Mrs Reggiani has exposed the anger felt by many Italians at what they perceive to be the inability of authorities to deal with a sharp rise in burglaries and assaults involving migrants from Eastern Europe, particularly Romania. In a front-page editorial Il Messaggero, the Rome daily, said “Our anger, frustration, fear and grief cannot be underestimated. This atrocious and vicious attack goes beyond our darkest imaginings, and is the direct consequence of excessive tolerance. We have blindly accepted anyone who wanted to come to Italy. We should have reacted much earlier.”

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In the past 18 months Romanians have been responsible for 76 murders, more than 300 rapes and 2,000 robberies in Italy, according to police statistics. Nearly 400 Romanians have been charged with kidnappings, mostly involving prostitution, and 6,000 with receiving stolen goods.

Concern that Bulgaria and Romania were let into the EU too soon means that most Balkan countries will have to wait at least a decade before they can join, officials in Brussels said yesterday. The slow pace of judicial reform in Bucharest and Sofia created a backlash against rapid membership.

 

[Stoat]

Appreciated, Stoat.
 

You're quite welcome, and thank you very much for pinging your list  :-)

[ScaniaBoy]

No difficulty understanding the Italians. They need to clean house. However, this is sooo counter to everything the EU stands for. Apparently Commissar, sorry, Commissioner Frattini (Italian) is in agreement with the Italian authorities, but it is going to be interesting to see what the rest of the Commission will do, and especially what happens if Romania complains.

See these articles:

Italy on the rack

The drama unfolds

[damondonion]

I’d guess that a lot of these Romanians are going to be orphans and/or abandoned children left over from Ceaucescu’s insane breeding program and some could be left over from that personal guard of his which had to be eliminated after he was deposed.

[liberty or death]

Add: To any and all immigrants who commit a crime.

[rotstan]

These Romanians are what people normally call gypsies.

[NurdlyPeon]

They need to do this to muslims.

Well, you can't say they didn't hit the bullseye, it was just the wrong target.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Good. Then round up another group of “immigrants” and expel them.

[Eastbound]

"These Romanians are what people normally call gypsies."

Well, they must not be muzzies or it would have been mentioned at least once in the story, right? RIGHT???

[ScaniaBoy]

Latest development plus more analysis re the stand of the European Union:

A blue nettle with yellow stars

"Belatedly, the MSM is catching up with the Italian immigrant story – The Telegraph running its first piece on a sequence of events that started last Wednesday. The Daily Mail is also in full flow, with a fairly full report, but pride of place must go to The Independent, which has been quicker off the mark. It gives the issue full front-page treatment (pictured).

"Predictably, given its "liberal" left-wing bias, the Independent sides with the Romanians, declaring: "Outcasts: Italy turns on its immigrants in wake of a murder," describing them as, "…the first victims of a brutal Italian crackdown on immigrants." It adds, "As thousands await deportation without trial, are we entering a new era of intolerance across Europe?", then dwelling on the misery of these incommers, remarking that, "the city rejoiced at their misfortune"."

[dervish]

Thanks.

when are they expelling their Muslims?

[SunkenCiv]

from November; I’m sure the leftists are glad they got rid of Berlusconi... ;’)

[Lancey Howard]

The Romanians should move to San Fransicko.

[AdmSmith]

Yes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe