Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Rom protest blocks highway

Demonstrators forced out of camp in Pesaro

24 April, 19:23
 
 
(ANSA) - Ancona, April 24 - A caravan of Roma blocked a major highway in Ancona Tuesday to protest being kicked out of a camp in the central Marche region.

Hundreds of Gypsies, who had been ordered to move south from their settlement in Pesaro, used their trailers to block the A14 highway before being removed by police. The Roma were in Ancona, the region's capital, for registration purposes after being told to leave Pesaro. The city said the they were forced to leave because designated spaces for Roma had exceeded maximum occupancy.