





We are
now in April. These families, these European citizens, these
fellow Christians, have had to sleep under bridges, then had
the police take from them, again, their blankets, their
clothes, their medicine, forbidding them to sleep there
because there was a baby with them. Now they must sleep in
groups of no more than three in the open streets, under the
rain. They are not allowed to work because they
do not have a legal address. They are constantly fined,
fines they cannot possibily begin to pay. Are constantly
ordered to return to Bucharest to have a stamp on their
documents, and the tickets for Romania cost 80 euro each
way. In Romania Social Assistance threatens to remove their
children, looked after by the grandparents, to place them in
orphanages with AIDS. Their only hope for the survival of
their children, forbidden work in both countries, is to beg.
April 2010
’AUREO
ANELLO’ ASSOCIAZIONE MEDIATHECA FIORETTA MAZZEI, CIMITERO
DETTO ‘DEGLI INGLESI, PIAZZALE DONATELLO, 38, 50132 FIRENZE
055 582608