Salvini wants to count Roma

rome - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini wants to know exactly how many Roma people live in Italy. To get a picture of the situation 'we have to do what was once called counting', said leader of right-wing populist party Lega on TV channel TeleLombardia. As far as he is concerned, counting may also be called 'personal registration' or 'snapshot'.

Salvini's statement caused outrage in the media. The newspaper La Repubblica spoke of a 'shock', to which the minister responded via Twitter with: 'Why? I also think of the poor children, who are taught in theft and lawlessness. 'He also announced that he would close illegal caravan camps and expel unwanted foreigners from the country.

The idea of ​​counting minorities among the population is reminiscent of the Nazi time. In Hitler Germany not only Jews were sent to the gas chambers but among others gypsies. 'The minister does not seem to know that a census based on ethnicity is not allowed in Italy', said the chairman of an association representing the rights of Roma and Sinti against news agency ANSA.

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