Salvini charged with gypsies | Threat of …

Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced on his Twitter account that he will begin Monday a census of Roma camps in Italy to develop "closures, expulsions and the restoration of legality ".

"Monday, I will write to all the prefects to have a detailed and real-time view of the presence of Roma in the abusive or theoretically" normal "camps in order to proceed, as planned, with closures, expulsions, displacement and displacement, restoration of legality, "said the Deputy Prime Minister.

Salvini, the leader of the right-wing Liga and the main promoter of the "closed ports" policy, is a declared opponent of illegal immigration in Italy and the European Union (EU) and manifests behaviors contrary to the granting of asylums in the EU. At the same time, he is an active advocate for animal rights, which has earned him many criticisms from social representatives.

These declarations by the Deputy Prime Minister send him back to one after the grievances he had addressed to the captain of the Sea Watch vessel, Carola Rackete, who rescued 40 immigrants from the high seas and took them to the port of Sicily for weeks. .

With these announcements, Salvini took over one of the promises of the Italian government, which, as of June 2018, had demanded the total closure of the Roma or Gypsy camps. He accuses them of accusing him of committing various illegal acts.

A recent revelation made by the municipality of Rome, governed since 2016 by the member of the Five Star government movement, has shown that in the Italian capital, there are more than 4,500 Gypsies, 3,000 less than 30,000. seven years ago. According to estimates, some 180,000 Roma of European origin still live in Italy, half of them having Italian citizenship and the vast majority of others being Romanians.

Salvini also had xenophobic statements with gypsies last year, when he said that those who are in an irregular situation should be expelled from the country, but those who are Italian, "unfortunately, we will have to stay. "