Name: Anonymous 2008-05-16 13:34
ROME (AFP) — Two Roma encampments in southern Italy were set alight Wednesday to keep their inhabitants from returning after they fled attacks by local residents, a report said.
Firefighters had just put out the first blaze in Ponticelli on the fringes of Naples when a second encampment nearby was set alight, Italy's ANSA news agency said.
Police said the blazes were meant to scare off the Roma, who had abandoned their huts and gone into hiding amid tensions sparked by the attempted kidnapping of an Italian baby by a 16 year-old gypsy girl last Saturday.
Most of them left the encampments in the middle of the night, with roughly 50 remaining in Ponticelli under police protection.
Petrol bombs had already set fire early Tuesday to four huts at the gypsy encampment. No casualties were reported.
On Tuesday evening, hundreds of demonstrators including teenagers armed with sticks had gathered around the camp as a police helicopter hovered overhead, ANSA said.
The Roma attacks near Naples will fan the flames of a wider immigration row developing in Italy, particularly with relation to Romanian immigrants.
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Glad to see that the Italian people are taking a stand against this multicultural bullshit.
Firefighters had just put out the first blaze in Ponticelli on the fringes of Naples when a second encampment nearby was set alight, Italy's ANSA news agency said.
Police said the blazes were meant to scare off the Roma, who had abandoned their huts and gone into hiding amid tensions sparked by the attempted kidnapping of an Italian baby by a 16 year-old gypsy girl last Saturday.
Most of them left the encampments in the middle of the night, with roughly 50 remaining in Ponticelli under police protection.
Petrol bombs had already set fire early Tuesday to four huts at the gypsy encampment. No casualties were reported.
On Tuesday evening, hundreds of demonstrators including teenagers armed with sticks had gathered around the camp as a police helicopter hovered overhead, ANSA said.
The Roma attacks near Naples will fan the flames of a wider immigration row developing in Italy, particularly with relation to Romanian immigrants.
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Glad to see that the Italian people are taking a stand against this multicultural bullshit.