” “”What they want to do is not a census of the Romany and Sinti populations in Italy: because it only concerns three regions and only those who live in the camps”. It was said by Mario Marazziti, spokesman of Comunità di Sant’Egidio, in a press conference convened by the association to voice their "deep concern" for an order, the one about the Romany children’s fingerprints, which is, "to say the least, confused and wrong, certainly discriminating”. “The recipients of the ministerial order commented Marazziti are identified according to their ethnic origin: Romany and Sinti, adults or children, living in the camps, differing in their nationality, sharing just a belonging to an ethnic group”. The ministerial order, explains S. Egidio, “does not even concern all Romanies or Sinti, since about one half of them are sedentary”. “We do not agree that the nomads’ issues should be treated as an emergency”, stated Marco Impagliazzo, president of Comunità di Sant’Egidio”, saying that in our country this problem "has always been treated as an emergency, never with a view to their inclusion with the Italian families and the schooling of children”. “It’s right to help the gypsy children he added but not with special laws, but as ordinary citizens to be socially included and mixed with the Italians”. So, not "a matter of police", but a matter of "social inclusion “.
