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Roman Police Find Sewer Children
BBC News ^ | April 04, 2009

Posted on 04/04/2009 10:40:04 PM PDT by Steelfish

Roman police find sewer children

The children were found in sewers close to railway stations Italian police have found more than 100 immigrants, including 24 Afghan children, living in the sewer system beneath railway stations in Rome.

The children range in age from 10 to 15 years and are now being looked after by the city's social services.

They were found when the railway police followed up reports of children living near the city's stations. The police say they do not speak Italian and broke into the sewers by removing manhole covers.

The charity Save the Children Italy says that more than 1,000 unaccompanied children arrived in Rome last year from various countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Railway police had been following up reports that groups of homeless immigrants were living in unhygienic conditions in and around Rome's three main railway stations.

Police said the Afghan children appeared to have arrived in the Italian capital as stowaways on board trailer trucks arriving from Turkey and Greece.

Some children were sleeping at night in sewers under the railway station to shelter from the cold, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghan; afghanistan; africa; asia; greece; latinamerica; manholecovers; rome; sewer; sewersystem; tm; turkey

1 posted on 04/04/2009 10:40:05 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Oh geez! Please tell the Obamas have already done Italy! If not, I’ve got a feeling BO will be ordering some planes over there.


2 posted on 04/04/2009 10:45:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We're All Garbage Dump Bears Now!)
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To: Steelfish

If it were Planned Parenthood it would be Fewer Children rather than Sewer Children.


3 posted on 04/04/2009 10:48:13 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Small world. I was in Rome, at the train station, I saw abouty 230 young Afghan refugees, some 12 years old, and I met the Save the Children people giving food out to mostly educated kids, University kids who didn’t want to get involved in a Karzai/Obama corrupt power grab, and didn’t want to follow Taliban to the death. All were noble, kind, just wanted a chance to get away from violence, told HORRIBLE stories each one of their trek to Rome, and dying to get out of an entrapped community of people who are finding closed doors in Europe to their plight. www.vicariouslytogether.blogspot.com


4 posted on 04/04/2009 11:06:47 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: rovenstinez

Eutopia is where the vicarious and the victorious lie in slumber alike.


5 posted on 04/04/2009 11:34:35 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Steelfish

Afghan children in Rome?how did that happen?.


6 posted on 04/05/2009 4:55:43 AM PDT by Vaduz
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