Gerald and Maas 2018 Suppressed News

 

 

June 30, 2018

      Italy: right-wing party leader and Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, has let the press know he's planning a census of the Roma so that he can expel those without proper documentation. Roma have been noticeably under attack in Italy since Silvio Berlusconi's programs in 2008, providing fascist politicians a means of gaining votes. However, ethnic cleansing through a racial census reminds some Italians of Mussolini and Hitler. Minister Salvini's suggestions drew a frightened response from Jewish groups throughout Europe. The European Grassroots Anti-racist Movement (EGAM) which holds a Roma Pride march every October in Europe has called for a European-wide Roma Pride march this October in Italy and asks all Italians to proclaim - "Siamo tutti Roma !" Italy has recently refused to allow landing of a shipload of 600 African migrants at sea (fortunately Spain took them in). The usually right wing programs of persecuting Roma peoples are linked to the campaigns against refugees, immigration and migrants in NATO countries, as if there is a coherent plan to disenfranchise vulnerable peoples. VOA quotes Salvini as saying last week, "Irregular foreigners will be deported via agreements with other countries, but Italian Roma unfortunately you have to keep at home." Supporting a police raid on the River Village Roma camp outside Rome last April, Casa Pound, which has grown into a fascist political party (exploiting the American poet Ezra Pound's moments of insanity) called for the camp to be shut down as so many others have already been. Salvini's neo-fascist Lega party has called for Roma children who weren't in school to be taken away from their families (VOA). There's an indication here of an international fascist platform, if not an agreement of like minds (see previous). Since 2008 Night's Lantern has carried eight genocide warnings for Roma in Italy, and if this seems extreme, read them.     Partial sources online: "Specter of Mussolini evoked as Italy’s Salvini orders full census & expulsion of Roma ‘illegals’," June 18, 2018, TV-Novosti; "Siamo tutti Roma!" EGAM, June 29, 2018, EGAM; "European Jews Watch on in Fear as Italy Targets Roma People," JTA and Cnaan Liphshiz, June 24, 2018, Haaretz; "Accustomed to Police Raids, Italy's Gypsies Fear Vigilante Attacks," Jamie Dettmer, June 24, 2018, Voice of America.

     

-  J B.Gerald