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Don't confude Italy or some other countries with the whole Europe.
Italy is a country of immigration since few years, In 2007 700,000 legal immigrant enters in this country (that's a way more the USA by capita).
Before Italy was a country of emmigration (Italian mainly immigrate in USA, Canada, France, Australia...)
Immigration is a new thing.
Of course it don't excuse this extrem racist policy.

Now there is also country like France or U.K where is immigration is very old.
There is some good and some bad but as a french ethnic minority the good is bigger than the bad.

Just for saying that generalisation are not a good thing, it is exaclty that italian politicts do with Roma.
According some racist sources, most crime are commited by roma, so most roma are criminal.