Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Firefighters inspect the remains of a Gypsy camp set alight in Naples after a resident was accused of trying to abduct a baby

National culture and identity. No leftist fantasy will ever kill the insurmountable human instinct for these things. They are the principal pillar for any organized and peaceful society. If mankind were not to be ordered into cohesive, distinct and unified groups, there would be no family units, let alone modern tribalism. Gypsies, like Muslims, have at best feigned assimiliation. And what is not mentioned in this article, is the extensive history of crime against innocent civilians because Gypsies, like Muslims, feel that ripping off and killing those not of the tribe is all good, part of their birthright. Every Tower of Babel will meet the same fate. Heed those words my open borders friends…

The Guardia:

Sixty-eight per cent of Italians want to see all of the country’s 150,000 Gypsies, many of them Italian citizens, expelled, according to an opinion poll.

The survey, published as mobs in Naples burned down Gypsy camps this week, revealed that the majority also wanted all Gypsy camps in Italy to be demolished .

About 70,000 Gypsies in Italy hold Italian passports, including about 30,000 descended from 15th-century Gypsy settlers in the country. The remainder have arrived since, many fleeing the Balkans during the 1990s.

Another 10,000 Gypsies came from Romania after it joined the European Union in January 2007, according to an Italian human rights organisation, EveryOne, part of the approximately half million Romanians believed to be in Italy.

Romanians were among the 268 immigrants rounded up in a nationwide police crackdown on prostitution and drug dealing this week, after new prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s likening of foreign criminals to “an army of evil”.

But Romanian officials have sought to distinguish between the Romanians and Romanian Gypsies entering Italy.

Flavio Tosi, the mayor of Verona and a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, said his city had the biggest Romanian community in Italy, 7,000 strong, “working as builders, artisans and domestics. And they themselves say the Roma are a problem,” he said.

In a second poll, 81% of Italian respondents said they found all Gypsies, Romanian or not, “barely likeable or not likeable at all”, a greater number than the 64% who said they felt the same way about non-Gypsy Romanians.

Young Neapolitans who threw Molotov cocktails into a Naples Gypsy camp this week, after a girl was accused of trying to abduct a baby. A UN spokeswoman compared the scenes to the forced migration of Gypsies from the Balkans. “We never thought we’d see such images in Italy,” said Laura Boldrini.

“Italian football stars at Milan teams assumed to have Gypsy heritage, such as Andrea Pirlo, are now also the subject of threatening chants.”

Commenting on the attacks in Naples, Umberto Bossi, the head of the Northern League party said: “People are going to do what the political class cannot.”