Euro MP Viktoria Mohacsi and EveryOne Group: “The Italian institutions are taking hundreds of Roma children away from their parents, who never hear from them again"

On May 17th and 18th, 2008 the Hungarian Euro MP, Viktoria Mohacsi, carried out an inspection of several Roma settlements in Italy, in Rome and Naples. In Naples she talked to some Roma families during the period of the pogroms, of the criminalization by the media, the racist patrols and the “zero tolerance” (in other words “zero rights”) being carried out by the police force. Mrs Mohacsi listened to accounts of a persecutory phenomenon being carried out against the Roma that EveryOne has been calling attention to for the last two years.

In the space of a couple of years all trace has been lost of 12 Roma children taken from their parents by the Naples Juvenile Court”, reports Viktoria Mohasci. “Some of these children were accused of begging, but their parents have heard nothing about their fate for the last two years”. During her meetings (as she testified before the EU assembly) the Euro MP was able to ascertain that there have been hundreds of similar cases in Italy.

EveryOne Group is able to confirm what Mrs Mohacsi says because we have listened to identical accounts in Milan, Rome, Florence and all over Italy. In some cases the social workers themselves were given “indefinite custody” of the children.

Deprived of their children, often in the space of a few hours after being arrested by the police on an excuse (and sometimes after being administered sleeping pills or sedatives) the mothers become incapable of opposing the measures being carried out by the social services and suffer such traumatic moral and psychological repercussions that they often attempt suicide.

In Rome, according to one witness, a young mother was killed when she threw herself in front of a car after being told her very small baby would not be returned to her. After having their babies taken from them (usually only a few months old, but also children of four, five and six) the Roma families suffer pressure and threats of all kinds to stop them protesting or seeking legal aid (which in Italy, is inadequate when it comes to defending Roma citizens). In many cases, after they have lost custody of their children, the parents have received a written warning or expulsion order. Showing great courage, the young Romania Roma, Ionit C., agreed to be interviewed by Roberto Malini, Dario Picciau and Matteo Pegoraro of EveryOne Group.

The birth certificate of the little Francesca Stefan Stefanuscu

Before our video camera he told the story of little Francesca Stefan Stefanuscu (his baby cousin) born in Pesaro on March 6th, 2008 who was torn away from her parents Lucretia Stanescu and Decian Stefan just a few hours after birth by the police and a social worker from Rimini. EveryOne Group will hand over this video to the Euro MP Viktoria Mohasci in the next few days so she will have further proof of the institutional crimes that are taking place against the Roma people in Italy. Copies will be sent to the other Euro MPs. The video and report will also be presented to the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights, to the European Court of Human Rights and the major human rights organizations. EveryOne Group has already started the procedure for little Francesca to be returned to her legitimate parents who were illegally expelled by the Italian authorities and who are at present living on French soil. It is essential that this individual case (which is symbolic of many such cases of abuse of authority being carried out throughout Italy) induces the international institutions to take up a firmer stance when it comes to resolutions and warnings, seeing the Italian authorities totally ignore them.

While we are working on this case and dozens of other serious cases of abuse, we have received news of the deaths of some very small infants following camp clearances and other violent acts being carried out towards children, women (some pregnant) and men of the Roma ethnic group - particularly Romanians. Senator Borghezio of the Lega Nord Party comments gleefully on this unjust ethnic purge: “We are carrying out a nice clean-up of Padania”. The press and TV channels, who have now become mere instruments of propaganda, are not devoting any time or words to these crimes against humanity and are even carrying out total censorship of the news disclosed by our group which obtains much more space when it comes to other topics such as gay rights, capital punishment, inappropriate psychiatric treatment etc.

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