Thursday,
November 22, 2007
The Italians View The
Romamians as The Greatest Thieves, the Most Honest
People
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
Killing of Giovanna Reggiani 47, wife of an Italian
Admiral, who was molested and beaten to death at a train station in Rome last
week, and the arrest of a Romanian, Nicolae Romulus Mailat, who told his Italian lawyer that he was sorry for
what happened and that he had intended only to rob the woman and did
not intend to aggress her, Mailat was arrested after
a woman from the barracks he was living in called the police.
This
tragedy has caused the Romans and the Romanians to view each other differently
Even though Romanians are accused of committing 75% of all the
serious crimes in
In
any event, Italians feel safe in most areas in
Otherwise
the female windshield wipers, the beggars, the kid pickpockets don't seem to
try the Italian patience.
As one Italian says:"You are
Romanians with extreme behaviors. You have the greatest thieves, but you
also have the most honest people I know".
Franco
Danielli, vice-PM in the Italian External Affairs
Ministry, Mihai Gheorghiu,
state secretary of
the Most Honest People
Jurnalul National -
By Carmen Plesa
November 22, 2007
Speaking
Romanian in
The old train that goes through the "good" areas of
THEY BURNT IT ALL. Most of the people in the wagon are women, all kinds of
ladies. No one seems scared or disgusted by the Romanian language. "For a
woman, this is a safe line. The safety disappears when one steps down in one of
these stations", a classy Italian lady says. "This is where the
Romas barracks were. In the entire forest. All
the barracks are gone now. I believe they burnt them right after they destroyed
them because one cannot tell there has been something in there", another
Italian lady tells us after stopping her crosswords activity
to show us the remains of t he former Tor di Quinto.
A young lady adds the station was to be closed because she used to see all
kinds of construction materials, but the killing of that lady hurried things up
a little bit.
We never heard a word to show the fear or the disgust towards the Romanians.
LESS SUCCESS WITH BEGGING .
"Some people told us to go back home because we are all criminals",
Ramona, one of the gipsy ladies that wash car windows in an intersection in
They are four girls and they all came from
They cannot say the policemen treated them badly. They never beat or threatened
them. After the killing of Giovanna Regianni, the
police came to their illegal camp as well and told them they would tear the
barracks down. It didnt happen, because,
according to the girls, the camp only has 10 families that didnt
behave badly. They try to explain that they didnt
have anything to do with the former camp of Mailat.
The Killing of Giovanna Reggiani meant less money for
the gipsy girls washing the car windows. The Italian drivers are afraid of them
and dont let them wash their windows anymore. There are some who threaten
them. This is why they earn half of what they used to.
The Romanian policemen also came and told us to go back home, because
things wouldnt be the way they used to be in
< BR>Carmen is decided to go home on Holidays after she buys clothes for
her baby back here. She says her mother is very scared since the Mailat case and asks her to go back when they talk on the
phone.
The daily happiness of the girls is connected to the appearance of a very
classy Italian old man. He pays them 1 euro every
day. "He used to be very important. Something like the chief of the police
or I dont know", one of the little gipsy girls explains while
grabbing the 1 euro coin.
On the other diagonal of the intersection, there is a fifteen year old girl
with a little baby in her arms. The baby is two months old and his name is Catalin. The mother and the child look ok. The girl wipes
his face with wet tissues from time to time and says the Italians are quite
large-handed with the little baby, who was born in a hospital in
THE
TRAJANS COLUMN. "You are people with extreme
behaviors. You have the greatest thieves, but you also have the most honest
people I know", an Italian says. "I know a lot of Romanian thieves,
but, in the same time, the most honest people I have ever met are also
Romanians", the Italian says and continues with telling us about Octavian,
a Romanian whom he knows for some time and to whom he would never hesitate to
give his apartment keys. Because he lives downtown, the Italian meets the
little gypsies every day. "No one fears from children and this is how they
get to lose their wallets", the Italian continues. Fontana di Trevi is one of the favorite places of the little thieves,
because, when they dont "take care" of the tourists pockets
they get to fish coins from the fountain.
Do you know who betrayed Decebal at Sarmizegetusa?", the Italian
suddenly asks and then he shows us the respective scene on Trajans Column.
I once went towards the top of the column with an architect and I saw a scene
in which three beautiful ladies of yours were beating a Ro man soldier-, the
Italian smiles. "I like it a lot on the 1st of December, your national
day", he stuns us. He can hardly wait to see the Romanians dancing
according to the traditions around the Trajan Column on the 1st of December.
COMMON
WORKFORCE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. At the end of the meeting
between Mihai Gheorghiu,
state secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, and Franco Danielli, vice-PM in the Italian External Affairs Ministry,
the two sides decided to create a common workforce group formed of
representatives of the Italian community in our country and of the Romanian
community in the
The Italian vice-PM concluded that the meeting was one "between friends,
just as it should have been" and reminded that
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