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The headline is back: The Italian politicians are angry against the increase of crimes committed by
immigrants originary from Eastern Europe. Berlusconi's centre-right coalition won the elections with a tough message against crime and he should continue to feed its voters by rhetorics, not by valuable steps to counter a phenomenon not suddenly appearing with the enlargement of the EU. But now it is possible to dilute the responsability, by focusing mostly of the ethnic origin of the perpetrators. As long as they hold IDs with citizenship of an EU country, they have to be treat exclusively as citizens of another EU country, and to apply in their case the rules and regulations available in this case.
If they are staying in camps, illegaly, in the suburbs of various Italian cities, the question is how it was possible to let them stay for so long? If they are begging in the street, try to apply the law and treat them as citizens who infringed this law.
For the individuals with criminal records, they are inter-state agreements according to which they could be extradited in their country of origins. Fingerprinting them, as it was asked at the end of the last year, it's again only a populist measure, without solving in fact the problem and only fuel the xenophobic feelings. Which is quite dangerous, because fueling also in their country of origin the ancient resentments. In Romania, they are often portrayed as being guilty of the bad image of the country abroad and such a positioning is nothing else than a green light encouraging the radical discourses.
On the other side, in the case of Roma the issue is a bit complicate and request a multi-layered approach. Many of them are simply victims of the human trafficking regional networks, both in their country of origin, than in Italy. Some of them don't even know where they are going to and they are simply exploited for prostitution or producing money. The NGOs should get more involved by preventing and protecting these people to get abused as well as to ensure their rights as full citizens are respected.
Moderation is sometimes an unsuccesful political strategy. But appealing to basic human feelings of hate, you open Pandora's box. Today, they are the Roma, tomorrow, they could be replaced easily by other ethnic groups. The general opinion is already prepared for everything.
immigrants originary from Eastern Europe. Berlusconi's centre-right coalition won the elections with a tough message against crime and he should continue to feed its voters by rhetorics, not by valuable steps to counter a phenomenon not suddenly appearing with the enlargement of the EU. But now it is possible to dilute the responsability, by focusing mostly of the ethnic origin of the perpetrators. As long as they hold IDs with citizenship of an EU country, they have to be treat exclusively as citizens of another EU country, and to apply in their case the rules and regulations available in this case.
If they are staying in camps, illegaly, in the suburbs of various Italian cities, the question is how it was possible to let them stay for so long? If they are begging in the street, try to apply the law and treat them as citizens who infringed this law.
For the individuals with criminal records, they are inter-state agreements according to which they could be extradited in their country of origins. Fingerprinting them, as it was asked at the end of the last year, it's again only a populist measure, without solving in fact the problem and only fuel the xenophobic feelings. Which is quite dangerous, because fueling also in their country of origin the ancient resentments. In Romania, they are often portrayed as being guilty of the bad image of the country abroad and such a positioning is nothing else than a green light encouraging the radical discourses.
On the other side, in the case of Roma the issue is a bit complicate and request a multi-layered approach. Many of them are simply victims of the human trafficking regional networks, both in their country of origin, than in Italy. Some of them don't even know where they are going to and they are simply exploited for prostitution or producing money. The NGOs should get more involved by preventing and protecting these people to get abused as well as to ensure their rights as full citizens are respected.
Moderation is sometimes an unsuccesful political strategy. But appealing to basic human feelings of hate, you open Pandora's box. Today, they are the Roma, tomorrow, they could be replaced easily by other ethnic groups. The general opinion is already prepared for everything.
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