Italy Gypsies in Rome resist eviction for F1 track

5 Apr 2010 |

‘Financial Times’ reports that the mayor of Rome wants to resettle 6,000 “foreign gypsies” in a dozen “villages of solidarity” outside the city, including Bosnian and Macedonian Roma who live in the way of a planned F1 racetrack.

Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, visited a camp this month and said Italy had to do more to promote integration. “Moving the Roma from illegal camps to authorised ones is not an adequate solution,” she said.

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Source : Financial times