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Targeting roms prohibited. Salvini's project condemned by the Commission

(B2) We don't cannot, as a general rule, expel a European citizen on the basis of ethnic criteria, [although] there are conditions and exceptions said European Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein on Tuesday (June 19). " It's crystal clear "He said.

Salvini wants a Roma file...

He thus reacted, questioned by the journalists during the daily press briefing, to the declared intention of the Italian Minister of the Interior to file Roma. The leader of the Northern League, Matteo Salvini announced on Monday (June 18) on TeleLombardia (regional television in northern Italy) his intention to carry out a census of Roma " to find out who and how many there are and thus allow the expulsion of those who are in an irregular situation.

“I am preparing a dossier on the Roma issue in Italy, because after Maroni nothing has been done, and there is chaos. [...] A survey of the Roma in Italy to see who, how, how many there are, redo what was defined in the census, establish a register. »

... in order to expel them

The objective remains the expulsion of foreigners in an irregular situation, in particular those coming from Romania (member countries of the EU) from Albania and Tunisia (third countries).

 “Irregular aliens will be [deported] with state-to-state agreements. [....] Romania, Albania, Tunisia, are the three main countries of presence in Italy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S02pCvIwgs

A healthy racism

But the minister's statement borders on low level racism and ignorance of certain facts of history when he addresses the situation of nationals.

“The Italian Roma, unfortunately, you have to keep at home. »

A statement that is insulting to say the least vis-à-vis a population that was subject to registration and extermination during the Second World War.

(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde, with Aurélie Pugnet st.)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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