In 2008 TV and newspapers nourish the feeling of fear denouncing the presence of thousands of non UE citizens striving for life in wooden and plastic shacks located along the Tiber embankments.

The newly established government declares the emergency state for the presence of nomadic communities, sets up censuses and the booking of every community and fingerprints all of them, including children.
The European Community calls for explanations and reports the limited progress achieved in Italy for the protection of the Roma and Sinti human rights.

In Rome, always considered one of the safiest cities in the world, only 4,904 people out of 3 million Roma citizens have been registered.

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