A year ago the streets of Rome were full of Roma beggars with young children.
The govt said the Roma were renting out children to other Roma to help in begging. It said it was going to clear the streets of them.
And they have.
Good thing too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1186400/Czech-far-right-party-linked-BNP-runs-Euro-election-TV-ads-demanding-Final-Solution-gypsy-problem.html
A far-right party in the Czech Republic, which has links with the BNP, has caused a storm by calling for a 'final solution to the gipsy issue'.
The Nazis used the term as a euphemism for the mass slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust.
The National Party in Prague made the call in a TV ad for the European Parliament elections next month.
The camera panned over dishevelled and dirty-looking Roma women and children, before a voice-over said 'we call for final solution to the gipsy issue'.
There were also slogans on screen such as 'Stop black racism', 'No favouring of gipsies' and 'We don't want black racists among us'.
Czech extremists routinely refer to Roma people as blacks. The Czech government has expressed outrage over the broadcast and pledged that it will not be repeated.
BNP leader Nick Griffin spoke last year at a rally of the National Party, which is also anti-immigration and anti-Muslim.
In his speech he railed against the accession of Turkey to the EU, saying that the introduction of millions of Muslims into the EU would 'drive down wages, living standards and increase taxes'.
His trip came after NP leader Petra Edelmannova was invited to a BNP festival, although other commitments stopped her attending. Edelmannova was the brains behind the 'final solution' ad. She wrote a pamphlet using the phrase last year.
In it she stresses the case for 'repatriating the Czech Republic’s Roma population to India'.
Czech TV said it was legally obliged to broadcast election videos exactly in the shape submitted by the parties.
Politicians have said the ad will be banned and there is also a movement to outlaw the NP itself.
BNP deputy leader Simon Darby conceded in a newspaper interview shortly afterwards that the phrase'final solution' was 'not exactly the best title for a document'.
But he added: 'There is a Gypsy problem there. There is a problem in this country as well.
'Some of the Travelling community have been here for a very long time. They keep themselves to themselves and sort out their own problems within their own communities. They have the same morals as me. I don't have a problem with them.'
He identifies the 'problem' as being foreign Roma who have immigrated into the UK since European enlargement, along with an undefined group of what he calls 'homegrown pseudo-Gypsies'.
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