Pogroms in Naples

Leftist politicians have also joined in the Roma-bating in Italy, writes the paper. "Several barracks in a Roma camp in Naples have been set on fire - yet apart from the radical left-wing Il Manifesto, not a single newspaper or TV station has used the word pogrom. ... In the recent elections, Italy's right wing had already declared public security as the country's 'top emergency'. And it did not mean the Cosa Nostra, the Camorra or the Ndrangheta. ... For them, the biggest threat to public security comes from the Roma and Romanians. ... The Left, too, played its part in fanning the climate of hate. Walter Veltroni was the one who proclaimed the 'Romanian emergency' last November following a murder in Rome, and had barracks in Roma camps cleared out with high media coverage."

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