"ITALY IS INVADED BY GYPSIES"
According to research from the Interior Ministry, 35 percent of Italians think that the gypsy in our country are much more than they actually are. The 8 percent is convinced that the number was approximately 2 million. The truth is that they are 10 times less.
The gypsy are the largest minority in Europe: EU live about 9-10 million (2 percent of the total population), although it is difficult to have official estimates. In our country, however, they live between 120,000 and 180,000, one of the lowest percentages ..
"THEY SHOULD GO HOME"
There are groups, gypsy, present in Italy for over six centuries, especially in the south. Most of them, therefore, is already "at home".
"THERE THEY COST A LOT OF MONEY"
This is true. But due to the fact that Italy, unable to leave the field logic. In short, segregating costs and for some it is a big deal that it should also to cooperatives and associations.
"STEAL THE CHILDREN"
There is a legend that tells of a little girl disappeared in a mall and found in the bathroom with hair shaved under the skirt of a gypsy. It's a universal story, it happened in all the Italian common friend of the cousin of an acquaintance.
A University of Verona Research in 2008 showed that of the 30 cases reported by ANSA between 1985 and 2007 there were no incidents of child abduction at the hands of a gypsy group.
"HAVE A LOT OF FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES"
there are no laws that ensure economic support to Gypsies. According to a survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights a gypsy in three is unemployed, 20 percent have no health care coverage, and 90 percent live below the poverty line.
"STEAL FOR CULTURE AND delinquent"
There is no data certifying a higher incidence of thefts and crimes in the Gypsy population than the rest of the citizens, if not the fact that the margins will commit crimes more easily. But it is a speech applicable to even the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of our cities.