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Mr President, whilst we are discussing an extremely important resolution, which will be put to the vote tomorrow, news arrived a few hours ago that, yesterday, in the province of Naples, a cabin in a Roma camp caught fire, resulting in the death of a young boy and the discovery of his father and another young boy in a serious condition.
A delegation of Roma from several Italian cities – who have been here for two days to meet Members and increase awareness among them – told me the news as soon as they heard it: they were saddened but stated that, unfortunately, such events continue to occur. Where do they occur? In Italy, in the heart of Old Europe, where these people – the majority of whom have not been Travellers for some time – are concentrated in camps without water, electricity or services.
One of them said today, ‘The first time I ever slept in a container was when I arrived in Italy; I had a house where I came from.’ The rights of the European Union end at the edges of the Travellers’ camps, and the Italian Government continues to rid itself – that is the term to use – of the Roma population through collective expulsions.
In such a situation it is impossible to educate the children and to make them attend school. There are young people 20 years old who were born in Italy and who do not have an Italian identity card. Recently, other children born in Italy have been considered to have a Yugoslav nationality, without knowing which one, as it no longer even exists. Many Roma citizens residing in my country have an identity card – when they do have one – that bears the address of the Travellers’ camp and, in parentheses, ‘Roma Camp’. It is obvious that they will not succeed in finding work and that they will be increasingly discriminated against, when they are in that situation.
I will conclude by saying that tomorrow’s vote is extremely important, but that it will be all the more so if it is put into practice, particularly by the European Commission. Let us not forget that the commissioner who should be attending to this issue is an Italian, Mr Frattini, although in my view he is very much like the monkey that used to say ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.’"@en1
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