The Giugliano camp, set up by the local municipality next to a landfill
containing toxic waste, illustrates clearly the hopeless situation Roma are
forced into by Italy’s unwillingness to provide adequate accommodation for its
Romani population.
When a court ordered the removal of Roma from the perilous conditions of
Giugliano, authorities had a chance to do the right thing. Instead they again
opted for another camp as an alternative place to live, ignoring the warnings of
non-governmental organisations such as OsservAzione that this policy promotes
the heartless segregation of the Romani community.
Unfortunately, Giugliano is not an isolated case.
Italian authorities have marooned men, women and children in a Roma-only camp
next to Ciampino airport runway in Rome, and haven’t provided suitable
alternative accommodation for these people even after the Rome Civil Court ruled
the relocation discriminatory.
Forced evictions of hundreds of residents from the camps of Lungo Stura Lazio
in Turin and Via Idro in Milan in the last year – again without providing
adequate alternative housing – further underlines the prejudicial horror show
that accommodation for Roma in Italy has become.
Read more on https://euobserver.com/opinion/132879
