Appeal: The rights are not cleared  |
| clearance of 21 January in Milan |
Over the past two years at Milan were made over 360 evictions of Roma and Sinti camps inhabited by involving hundreds of families from this time on the territory citizen. After each eviction
there is only the effect of ritual performance "clean" and met with community leaders about the statements of tons of garbage removed.
evictions are often carried out without prior notification and sometimes police officers are involved in significantly disproportionate numbers compared to the Roma people who want to remove, considerando anche l’alto numero di anziani e bambini presenti; gli sgomberi spesso sono attuati all’imbrunire o alle prime luci dell’alba ed anche in pieno inverno con avverse condizioni atmosferiche, molti sgomberi sono avvenuti sotto la pioggia o la neve; a seguito degli sgomberi le abitazioni e i pochi altri beni personali dei Rom sono arbitrariamente distrutti, spesso si tratta di oggetti di scarso valore economico che tuttavia per quelle famiglie rappresentano le uniche proprietà; la maggior parte delle persone sgomberate non riceve alcun tipo di offerta circa una sistemazione alternativa, e nelle rare occasioni in cui sono presenti i servizi sociali le soluzioni proposte prevedono lo smembramento delle famiglie o l’allontanamento dei children.
Due to continuous and repeated evictions many Roma children have been forced to stop schooling and precious bonds of friendship built with his teammates. The teachers and parents of some schools where Roma children were included, we have repeatedly mentioned as the continuing evictions violate the inalienable right to education. To attend school is the only chance for these children to think about a different future. Children who are denied the right to education children are also deprived of a right to know that we can live in a better way, deprived even of the right to dream a different life.
This practical choice by the Municipality of Milan there is intolerable, as it systematically violates the most elementary rights of adults and children enshrined in international conventions and by our Constitution: the right to housing, personal integrity, health, education, and the prohibition of discrimination.
In recent years, the bulldozers and evictions have not solved anything, in fact - with a great expenditure of public funds - have helped to make it even more difficult and tragic life of the Roma families, in particular of some hundreds of children, increasing their discomfort and their exclusion from the social fabric.
In fact, despite the massive funding received (€ 13,115,700.00 August 29, 2008, by the Fund for Urban Safety and protection of public order of the Ministry of Interior), measures of integration and social promotion was launched by the Municipality of Milan in against Roma camps is not regular.
The Court has recently ruled against the City of Milan for discriminatory behavior in relation to each other due to the non-allocation of the houses of Roma families Triboniano range, for the same reason, a group of 39 citizens complained to the Public Prosecutor of the Mayor Deputy Mayor Moratti and De Corato for repeated evictions of Roma camps, assuming the offense of abuse of office, interruption of public service (particularly with respect to compulsory schooling) and damage, with the aggravating circumstance of having done so for purposes of discrimination and racial and ethnic hatred.
In recent years in Milan but there are also those who chose to see these faces, these people, to build close relationships, to consider the new neighbors or new classmates. Sometimes after an eviction are lots unexpected chain of solidarity, which had also emphasized on the local and national media, but although these reactions are not important enough.
Some associations and groups as well as individual citizens, teachers and parents have built with the Roma families relationships based on trust, learning to overcome mutual suspicions and fears. Integration projects have been so live, work, school. These people have chosen to live it the role of active citizenship to build a city more livable and safer for everyone, because more welcoming a city capable of protecting the rights of all beyond the ethnic and cultural.
We are aware that those of inclusion and social security issues are delicate and not easy to deal with, but these experiences have taught us enough to recognize that the Roma and Sinti people, first of all with the same rights and duties of every inhabitant, old and new, of this city to pursue a new path.
ask the Mayor and Deputy Mayor Moratti De Corato to stop the illegal and inhumane treatment accorded to Roma and Sinti living in the municipal area.
We call the municipal administration of Milan put an immediate end to the practice of forced evictions.
demand that public resources are not wasted on more systematically demolish and destroy shacks and possessions, dreams and bonds, but are used to promote housing and real paths of integration work and projects that guarantee the right to education and health for all, including Roma and Sinti. We
that Roma and Sinti are recognized as subject to full, active partners of the projects that concern them
We call on the associations, union representatives, to the churches, religious denominations, men of culture, to health services, teachers , lawyers and all citizens who believe nell'inviolabilità of human and civil rights enshrined in our Constitution, to support and subscribe to our appeal. They joined
:
1. Support Group 2
Forlanini. Mothers and Teachers Rubattino
3. B. School Parent Association Munari via Feltre
4. Naga
5. Jewish Peace Camp (Milan)
6. CNCA Lombardy (National Coordinating Community Home)
7. Cooperative Community of Giambellino
8. Il Gabbiano Community Association Onlus
9. Coordination Intergas
10. GAS Feltre
11. GAS Lambrate
12. GAS Giambellino
13. ANPI Provincial Milan (President prof. Smuraglia Carlo)
14. ANPI Section Martyrs Lambrate Nettle (President Ginetto Mori)
15. Association Zone 3 x the Constitution (President Titti Benvenuto)
16. North South co-ordination of the World
17. Legal Team Italy
18. People magazine (director Stephen Femminis)
19. Magazine Updates Social (Costa Jesuit Father James)
20. AGESCI Area Milan (responsible citizens: Anna Boccardi, Claudia Christian and Andrea Don lottery)
21. Group Scout AGESCI MI 68 (group leaders; Scavuzzo Anna and Marco Micheletti)
22. Tenants Union - Milan
23. Sicet CISL - Milan
24. Tenants Committee Molise-Calvairate-Pont (France Caffè)
25. Editorial Mahalla (Fabrizio Casavola)
26. Network of Schools Without Permission
27. Brass band Combustion
28. Everyone
29. Watching the Sky group
30. Association July 21 Rome
31. Convergence of Cultures - Milan
