Monday, February 7, 2011

The deaths of four Roma children in Rome reveals the passivity of the Mayor

The tragic death of four Romanian children between four and eleven years old, died in Rome on Sunday evening by the fire which engulfed the hut where they lived in the Via Appia Nuova, near the airport of Ciampino, revealed that the city of Rome has spent two years making propaganda of an imposing and suggestive Nomad Plan but has never actually implemented.

The mayor, Gianni Alemanno, last night visited the scene of the tragedy and blamed the incident on "the damn bureaucracy", which he said has prevented the council to end the "cursed squatter camps" and implement the plan publicized relocation of the Roma, a promise that as the opposition and human rights associations have been buried in oblivion.

Alemanno, punctuated in recent months by a corruption scandal cloudy Parentopolis named for the numerous appointments of relatives, friends and even some singers to work in township enterprises, said yesterday that today ask "screaming the Government special powers" to dismantle all squatter camps and implement the construction of 13 camps and safe equipped with capacity for 6,000 people.

But that same promise is repeated for months without tangible results. July 21 The Association has reported today that "many Romanian Roma families have been subject to numerous evictions and have been stranded by the policies of the authorities, which is expressed in all its inefficiencies with Nomadic Plan." The district president Susy Santini has also criticized the mayor's action and ensured that the camp where the tragedy occurred had been reported to the council two weeks ago "but this gave no answer." As already known today, the Romanian family was evicted a year ago in another camp poor by the authorities.

The Democratic Party of Rome has said that the mayor "has always faced the situation of the Roma as a mere problem of public order" and asked to take responsibility Alemanno. The mayor said the last census of Roma says there are currently over a hundred illegal Roma camps in the province of Rome, which houses some 7,200 people.

"Unfortunately, we have encountered numerous bureaucratic obstacles that have slowed the construction of regular camp," he insisted Alemanno. "A damn bureaucracy that has blocked our plan for months and has produced this effect." The small village of four huts where the children lived will be dismantled today by the police and the mayor has promised to give aid to its citizens and parents of young children, three boys, Raul Mircea decuatro years, Fernando, five, and Sebastian, 11 -, and a daughter, Patrizia, Deoch years.

The tragedy occurred at 21.00 pm, when parents had gone to buy food at a nearby store. According to firefighters, the most likely cause of the accident was that a chunk broke off the brazier, burned some clothes and sparked a fire in the hut of plastic where the children slept. The mother was found by emergency services, local media reported, was desperate and just repeated "I want to die with them."

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