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Romanian MEP Renate Weber was cursed to share membership at home, in the National Liberal Party, or PNL, with less potent politicians.
Romanian MEP Renate Weber was cursed to share membership at home, in the National Liberal Party, or PNL, with less potent politicians.While Weber took a clear stance against the recently adopted policy in Rome, Italy, which calls for all Gypsies, including children, to have their fingerprints recorded, the PNL led government in Bucharest was complacent at best, and failed to defend the interests of Romanian citizens abroad, many of whom were of Gypsy origin and targeted by the Italian government policy.
Weber stated that Italy's recording of
Gypsies' fingerprints is in violation of the human rights and a policy inspired
by the Nazis, according to ANSA, of July 1, 2008, at 4:46 pm CET.
Italy's minister of interior, Roberto Maroni, a member of the
anti-immigration Northern League, defended his policy stating that “We have to
know who lives in Italy,
their whereabouts, their occupation and their plans for the following months.
s...ţ It is no secret to no one that children are exploited into committing
crimes and moved from one city to another to avoid apprehension,” according to
The Time & Transcript, New Brunswick, of June 30, 2008.
This time, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs gave a lame excuse for its lack of action against this move, which
targets many Romanian citizens of Gypsy origin, as deputy minister of foreign
affairs Raduta Dana Matache said in an ANSA interview that the Government in
Bucharest was aware of “a larger number of Gypsies leaving Italy, but relayed
on Gypsy organizations for the information, as the Romanian state had no
statistics available.”
So, between Romania's
lack of statistics and Italy's
fingerprinting of an entire community we are reminded of the WWII research on
the Gypsy population conducted by Dr. Robert Ritter, with the Office for Com
batting the Gypsy Nuisance. Most of this office's work meant locating and
classifying on racial grounds the Gypsies living in Germany
and Austria.
The Third Reich had a 1933 law “against the usual offenders” which basically
referred to Gypsies, who were herded in camps and marked with the black
triangle of the “anti-social types.”
And on 8 December 1938 the SS head Heinrich Himmler issued an order to “fight against the Gypsy nuisance”, based on Ritter's work which basically came down to recording “every Gypsy in the Reich.”
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