Gypsy dead on beach don’t put off Italian sunbathers

The highly bigoted and callous attitude of many Italians to their Roma minority was revealed over the weekend after photographs were published of sunbathers continuing as normal with a day at the beach despite the bodies of two drowned Gypsy girls being laid out on the sand nearby just outside Naples, where a Roma encampment was burned to the ground this year after its inhabitants had been evacuated for their own safety. One of the deceased was 14, the other 16.

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Monday, July 21st, 2008

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