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Italian outrage over Romany gypsy drowning photos
CNN ^

Posted on 07/21/2008 10:42:26 AM PDT by DemonDeac

"(CNN) -- Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Romany gypsy girls were laid out on the sand."

"Two of them were pulled to safety but rescuers failed to reach the other two in time to save them.

The Web site of the Archbishop of Naples said the girls were cousins named Violetta and Cristina, aged 12 and 13.

Their bodies were eventually laid out on the sand under beach towels to await collection by police. Photographs show sunbathers in bikinis and swimming trunks sitting close to where the girls' feet can be seen poking out from under the towels concealing their bodies. A photographer who took photos at the scene told CNN the mood among sunbathers had been one of indifference."

""The most shocking aspect of all this is the attitude of the people on the beach," the statement said. "No one appears the slightest upset at the sight and presence of the children's dead bodies on the beach: they carry on swimming, sunbathing, sipping soft drinks and chatting."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drowning; gypsies; italy; roma
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To: BlazingArizona
I know of that hatred. It exists even among leftist moonbats over there. The thing is, I wonder how folks knew the corpses were gypsies? By their poor taste in fashion or what?
21 posted on 07/21/2008 12:47:03 PM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: durasell; weegee

You’re supposed to ping ‘em if you mention ‘em. ;)


22 posted on 07/21/2008 12:47:55 PM PDT by Xenalyte (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~)
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To: BurbankKarl

I believe that was the French.


23 posted on 07/21/2008 12:48:49 PM PDT by Xenalyte (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~)
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To: DemonDeac

I don’t understand what these people are supposed to do? Why was the beach not closed immediately by officials? What percentage of the seaside crowd even knew what was going on? What are they supposed to do, run away screaming?


24 posted on 07/21/2008 12:50:11 PM PDT by j-damn
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To: DemonDeac

Its really hard to get a read on what happened here. The Italians don’t like the Rom. When I lived in Naples I remember watching public service announcements warning against gypsys on AFRTS TV. This professionally done advertisement showed surveillance photos of Romany children gathering in the Piazza where they worked the crowd.

I was in a train one time in Moscow when a Rom mother with her child were standing beside my friend and I just in front of the doors. The train had finished loading and the kid went right into his pocket and grabbed his notebook. The mother grabbed the childs one arm and rushed the door which was closing.

He grabbed the kids other arm at the wrist and they had a tug of war with the kids arm getting caught in the door. He got his notebook back and I’m sure that kid had a sore arm. The other passengers, the ones that acknowledged it, just clucked their tongues and shook their heads.


25 posted on 07/21/2008 12:54:42 PM PDT by Belasarius (Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:2-7)
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To: gracesdad

Showing DEAD people from 9-11 would take it from being a number and a lot of smoke and broken glass.

The images of all death were suppressed from day one.

They have no qualms about showing our dead troops.

Tell me what THAT accomplishes. Their purpose in demanding photos of dead troops was to sink morale for the war.

Perhaps seeing our own dead citizens from an international attack on our homeland would get people to recall just how horrific the attacks were. The sheep are lulled. “We deserved it” is an attitude of professors on campuses.

I don’t want to see ANY dead bodies if the media is going to play this game.

They quickly rushed Nick Berg and other victims off the front page but kept Abu Ghraib on the front page for 30 days.

I loathe the media.


26 posted on 07/21/2008 1:01:37 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: durasell

He did take photos of car crashes and gangster shootings. And he was as likely to photograph the crowds looking at the grue as he was the event itself. I don’t recall photos of the crowds and the body in the same shot.

The world is also a bit different place. In the 1950s and 1960s, people would line up at a car crash on the highway to take a look. One of the educational filmmakers in Ohio even captured the spectacle and would shoot his own footage of the people dying at the scene (upclose and with sounds of their dying gurgles). Horribly exploitive (you can learn about it in the documentary “Hell’s Highway”). But so were the people who were stopping to gawk and the police who permitted it.


27 posted on 07/21/2008 1:05:34 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: BurbankKarl
When people die at the beaches in Southern California, of course there is a big effort to resuscitate them in front of the crowd, and they get declared once they are put on the ambulance....

Disney World is known for pulling this same sort of ploy.

28 posted on 07/21/2008 1:07:32 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: gracesdad
And showing mutilated shredded bodies from 9/11 would accomplish what?

it would show those who seem oblivious the nature of our foe and make folks in general angry

a good thing in wartime.

the demonization of the enemy is right

29 posted on 07/21/2008 1:10:20 PM PDT by wardaddy (Myself and my ancestors take full responsibility for all racial discrimination here since 1607)
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To: SampleMan
What about a bloody, burned Chinese todler sitting in the remains of a bombed Shanghai train station in 1937

a Pulitzer winner but wasn't that Nanking?

i read the journalists rescued the baby too

30 posted on 07/21/2008 1:12:06 PM PDT by wardaddy (Myself and my ancestors take full responsibility for all racial discrimination here since 1607)
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To: SampleMan
What a heart wrenching photo to anyone with kids....that baby looks to be about 11-14 months...hurt and terrified.

War is hell indeed albeit very necessary at times


31 posted on 07/21/2008 1:16:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (Myself and my ancestors take full responsibility for all racial discrimination here since 1607)
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To: wardaddy

Absolutely heartbreaking photo.


32 posted on 07/21/2008 1:17:32 PM PDT by commonguymd (A de facto single party country is nigh. The partisan bickering is a mere bilking mechanism.)
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To: TexasCajun

I smell “Photo Shop.”


33 posted on 07/21/2008 1:19:25 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Who would McQueeg rather have mad at him: You or the liberals?)
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To: weegee

He did take photos of car crashes and gangster shootings


That’s how he got his name — like ther “ouigi board.” He’d often arrive before the cops.

Freelance photogs in those days would buy WWII army surplus tank radios, which were tuned to the same frequency as police radios. It was a simple matter of hooking it up to the car’s power supply.


34 posted on 07/21/2008 1:37:08 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: BurbankKarl

“These are the same vacationers that let their parents die in the roasting heat a couple years back...”

I think that was the French.

http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/heatwave.htm


35 posted on 07/21/2008 3:42:16 PM PDT by Mila
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To: Cyber Liberty

I think it is a long shot with a zoom lens. Here is CNN’s original headline, which was corrected later.

Italians sunbathe as Gypsy girls drown - CNN.com


36 posted on 07/21/2008 5:00:03 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

I knew CNN would resist the urge to be a tabloid. /s


37 posted on 07/21/2008 5:06:12 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Who would McQueeg rather have mad at him: You or the liberals?)
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To: wardaddy

Yes, yes, and yes.


38 posted on 07/21/2008 5:24:08 PM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: sharkhawk

Well, if it happened here - families would be looking to sue, officials would start an “investigation” the beaches would be closed and somebody would be planning some kind of memorial (we would have to come up with some different ribbon color as most have taken by other “causes”) and Sharpton would be threatening some kind of boycott or rally until he got paid to shut the hell up.


39 posted on 07/21/2008 5:29:13 PM PDT by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: Cyber Liberty

This is an actual photo from WWII Japan. No photo shop then.


40 posted on 09/19/2010 8:32:58 AM PDT by Ciccolilli
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