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No dolce vita for Romani in Italy

Published: 16 March, 2009, 09:12
Edited: 28 November, 2009, 03:58


AFP Photo / Frederick Florin

The 600,000 strong gypsy community in Italy is fighting the prejudices of the population and the state, as the government's hard-line approach to the minority is pushing them into the margins of society.

 
1 COMMENT
Leo November 27, 2009, 23:56 quote
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Everyone should have the right to seek a better life ,after all that is how this grate country was founded as well as most other countries . In a time when most countries are sending mission workers into other countries what are we doing to help the needy in our own countries cant beleave that a whole race of people can be criminal , they are only being persaquited because of their race and customes just as the Jewes have been .

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