Please read this:

http://www.eudebate2009.eu/eng/article/29840/livia-jaroka-female-mep-roma-elections-europe.html

To Andrea,

Your stereotypical ideas about the Roma is one of the misconceptions that makes persecution possible. The view of all Roma as criminals is racist in addition to being nothing but stereotype. Could you get away with saying it about any other group? The fact that you can get away with saying it about the Roma is just more evidence about how this group is persecuted--government sanctioned violence against any group is not okay.

Jenny (who has distant Roma ancestry in the interest of full disclosure, though I would never be recognized as Rom)

I spent several weeks in Italy last summer and realized that almost everybody in Italy is Italian, or at least, it seems this way. You can tell who lives in Italy by the fact that there is very, very little foreign food. Italy is one of the most insular countries in Europe.

Please see this:

http://www.osi.hu/exhibition/bauerd/rbm.htm

I'm afraid your segment while giving a blank condemnation of Italy, completely ignores the fact that gipsies/romas essentially make their living through crime. This is clearly observable, and it has been so for as long as I have been alive.

While the attack against the camps was despicable, how about we try try for a balanced report?

thanks for this segment!