1 00:00:00,940 --> 00:00:15,490 ''Europe's political repressive decisions and xenophobic attitudes are a serious problem. For instance, Italian Government decisions to to turn immigration a crime and the recent attacks to gypsies's slums in Naples and Milan. '' Louise Arbour the ONU High Commissioner 2june 2008 2 00:00:15,937 --> 00:00:21,647 People: GO AWAY! GO AWAY! BASTARDS! BACK IN YOUR COUNTRY 3 00:00:21,741 --> 00:00:23,761 Naples: May 2008, Gypsies's slums 4 00:00:23,860 --> 00:00:25,560 People: TURDS! 5 00:00:28,208 --> 00:00:34,538 Gyspy: We are afraid when we walk down the street. We have few money, I have a 5 year old and I'm afraid of not being able to buy him food, I am really scared. 6 00:00:36,451 --> 00:00:43,531 People: Police had to intervene to send you away! shame on you! We will not stand you anymore! 7 00:00:45,459 --> 00:00:49,459 People: The police had to intervene! Do you understand or not? The police! 8 00:01:22,977 --> 00:01:27,097 People: GO AWAY! GO AWAY! 9 00:01:27,231 --> 00:01:31,231 People:We clean Naples from this scum! 10 00:01:31,394 --> 00:01:33,544 Lady: How dare they protest? 11 00:01:40,477 --> 00:01:42,507 Child: They have to go to live on top of a mountain! 12 00:01:42,728 --> 00:01:44,538 Yemajà and Focus.it present 13 00:01:44,736 --> 00:01:48,736 Gypsies are bastards! 14 00:01:52,731 --> 00:01:56,731 investigation on the new racist wave in Italy 15 00:02:08,996 --> 00:02:12,996 documentary created by Carolina Borella, Franco Capone, Andrea Minoglio 16 00:02:15,030 --> 00:02:22,540 People did a chorus: '' We don't want them! '' 17 00:02:32,211 --> 00:02:38,511 The are too many gypsies, people aren't safe in their own homes, on the street, 18 00:02:38,770 --> 00:02:41,500 Old man: The gypsies have never worked in their lives 19 00:02:41,564 --> 00:02:45,314 Young guy: The major part of them live here only to commit theft 20 00:02:45,475 --> 00:02:48,515 lady: They don't contribute to the community, they exploit community and stop! Nothing else! 21 00:02:48,739 --> 00:02:54,539 Old Lady: I hope that they will go away from italy. They dirty all over , steal..... 22 00:02:54,893 --> 00:03:00,553 The other old lady: ...... steal, they make noise, they pretend to be plumbers or gas engineers to steal the valuables in our homes. 23 00:03:00,711 --> 00:03:04,541 Black guy: I'm not racist, but i believe that they are weird 24 00:03:04,723 --> 00:03:08,723 romanian guy with the hat: They live here only to commit theft. Why they take an honest job like me ? 25 00:03:08,821 --> 00:03:14,001 Their race is not a problem, the problem is that they fail to integrate in our society. 26 00:03:14,374 --> 00:03:20,514 If we do not teach them to integrate into our society, they roam all day and will continue to steal first in one place and then in another. 27 00:03:20,726 --> 00:03:25,566 The old man in the upper right corner: Gypsies are impossible to eradicate from our society. 28 00:03:25,735 --> 00:03:31,225 Gypsies are a serious problem, recently I have seen that have invaded other areas of the city 29 00:03:31,410 --> 00:03:35,110 Young lady: The more time passes and they will invade all the territories 30 00:03:35,235 --> 00:03:36,765 The girl in the upper left corner: We've been invaded! is something unacceptable ! 31 00:03:36,869 --> 00:03:44,529 Old lady: Gypsies, Moroccans, English, no the British no, I said wrong nationality, sorry. But the first 2 races get dirty all over, worse than pigs in a sty! 32 00:04:38,143 --> 00:04:41,533 Milan, Gypsies's slums on Bovisasca St., before the eviction. 33 00:04:48,965 --> 00:04:55,595 We are almost 600 people, we don't want to fight here! 34 00:04:59,493 --> 00:05:08,483 Lavinia Costache coltural mediator: We are sure that there are lots of children, should there be officially 275. 35 00:05:08,631 --> 00:05:23,511 Policewoman: Let's take the time to the gypsies's families who live in these slums to dismantle their shacks and to take their things,and move to this side of the court .Then will come the bulldozers to clean up this place. 36 00:05:23,912 --> 00:05:29,322 Gypsies are dirty 37 00:05:29,510 --> 00:05:37,790 This is a land that has a high level of pollution, the municipality had to reclaim more than 20 years ago. Workers did the corings 38 00:05:37,815 --> 00:05:50,535 they saw what was inside the ground, here was the ''Montecatini industry'', so they have left everything exactly as it was before the corings. The citizens of this district has always breathe this pestilential smell that came from these slums 39 00:05:50,888 --> 00:05:58,498 The only concern of local politicians was to find a new place to move these poor people 40 00:05:58,710 --> 00:06:06,530 Gypsy: Italians have brought this garbage here! Italians brought their garbage here, they throw it from trucks, cars, etc. ... 41 00:06:06,868 --> 00:06:19,758 Policewoman: It often happens, that Italians do not know where to dispose of waste or building materials, therefore their go to throw them garbage in the Gypsies's slums. 42 00:06:19,872 --> 00:06:40,322 Italians are taking advantage of the poor condition of these places, in fact, behind you, there are wastes that are not typical of the Gypsies, but are debris that are commonly found in every Italian house or objects that remain after a moving house and are left here . 43 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:56,550 President of the association '' Aven Amtza'' : In east Europe, but also in other countries, Gypsies live in their homes, occasionally happens here too, and in this houses they have showers, tubs, sinks, like a regular house. 44 00:06:58,195 --> 00:07:10,525 But if you live in an area along with 200 people and there is only one water tap in whole the field , what can you do? 45 00:07:14,299 --> 00:07:27,539 Petre Stoican, Gypsy carrier , Triboniano St., Milan: '' When i catch the bus or tram, I'm far away from other people because, I know that by working and sweating all day long i have an unpleasant smell and i create discomfort to Italians. 46 00:07:27,769 --> 00:07:38,539 Eduard, gyspy child ,Pavia: '' When I go to the oratory of S.pietro, the other children tease me. They tell me: '' You stink! You suck! Look at that ugly pair of shoes that he has! '' 47 00:07:39,537 --> 00:07:43,327 They tell me all day long: '' Go away jerk '' 48 00:07:43,577 --> 00:07:47,577 The first calumny that is said on the other race is that they are dirty 49 00:07:51,980 --> 00:08:06,410 Djana Pavlovic, actress and cultural mediator: There's 500 people in Milan , right now, maybe even more than 500, that living in the tents, in the mud, in the dumps or near to train stations 50 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:14,040 Often the tents in which these people live have cuts or are broke, because when the police evacuate the slums, the cops cut the tents. 51 00:08:14,155 --> 00:08:15,545 Policeman1: Hey colleague, where we lead them? 52 00:08:15,703 --> 00:08:17,483 Milan, Gyspies's slums in Triboniano Street 53 00:08:17,689 --> 00:08:21,689 Policeman 2: They have to go away, come on! go away! 54 00:08:22,311 --> 00:08:27,251 Gypsy: Don't push me! I look like a disabled person who needs a boost or something? 55 00:08:27,458 --> 00:08:32,558 Quarto Oggiaro? What the hell are you saying ?! I have a residence here, not in Quarto Oggiaro! 56 00:08:32,735 --> 00:08:47,485 So if they have 4 kids that go to school, and kids are 3 or 4 years old or they have age from 5 to 7 years old, and they living in poverty , the parents can't take care of them children and they are forced to let them children become ill with pneumonia or other disease. 57 00:08:47,746 --> 00:08:59,000 No one is scandalized from this things , no one asks the question, '' How it's possible that in Milan the children are forced to sleep on the street? '' .