ITALY-IMMIGRATION-GYPSIES

A Red Cross employee takes ID photograph of a gypsy child in an illegal camp in the periphery of Rome on July 17, 2008. UN independent human rights experts slammed Italy for new measures targeting Roma, or gypsies, but welcomed a decision by the authorities in Rome not to implement compulsory fingerprinting. An announcement by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni that he intended to send security forces into squatter camps across Italy to take fingerprints of both adults and children sparked outrage in Italy and Europe.
AFP PHOTO / Tiziana Fabi