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From: squatter
Posted: 15 May 2008
Roma Situation

Looks like the Roma aren't too popular in Naples either:

"........ The Naples arson attacks, however, are the result of long-festering anger throughout Italy over rising crime levels and urban degradation, much of it blamed on Roma gypsies and the estimated half a million Romanians who have emigrated to Italy since Romania joined the European Union....."


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3940192.ece


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From: nootius
Posted: 16 May 2008
Roma Situation
Sorry to hear that edtheted.

You have given the gardai concrete details about the alleged perpetrator. They could not get a better lead than that. Will be interesting to see if they actually follow up on your statement. The fact that they have left it so long already indicates to me that they couldn?t be bothered. Is wallet stealing not considered a crime any more?
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From: balga
Posted: 16 May 2008
Roma Situation
The owner of the property contacted the conservation officer at FCC yesterday morning. The conservation officer is hopeful that the matter will be resolved without resort to enforcement notices. The owner (a development company) will be required to maintain the property in the state it was in at purchase. This should involve making the property inaccessible.
Now that FCC have identified the legal owner (and there appear to be no problems with title) it should only be a matter of time before the property is secured. The more people concerned about this matter the better - it will push the matter to the top of the conservation officer's to do list.
Her contact details are posted elsewhere.
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From: Buzza
Posted: 16 May 2008
Roma Situation
The problem is that when the house their squatting in is finally abandoned by them, they will then target somewhere else in the area to live. They are flexible in that respect !

The only way to sort this problem is not to have a meeting in the parish hall with them ( lol ) but to repatriate them back to Romania and establish tighter procedures for future Roma's in search of a host country to beg and thieve in.

I see them every morning getting off the train in connolly station and the first thing they do is go straight to the public phones. I can only assume that they are phoning others around the city and coordinating themselves on a daily basis, without the assistance of the master criminal that others have noted as forcing them in to a life of crime and grime !
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From: edtheted
Posted: 16 May 2008
Roma Situation
I just got a call from the Gardai in Store St. Thay have picked up the girl, she is a minor and will be treated as such, so expect her to get a slap on the wrist and be back out on the street by 5pm
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From: squatter
Posted: 16 May 2008
Roma Situation
From today's Irish Examiner - it looks like the HSE has finally emerged from hibernation.


The Health Service Executive is to inspect a run-down house where of a 15-year-old girl is said to be living in ?appalling? conditions with nearly 40 others and no electricity or running water.

The Dublin Children?s Court has heard that the girl travels by jumping onto wagons of passing freight trains, putting her life at risk.

The girl, who is originally from Romania, is charged with failing to comply with a Garda direction under the Public Order Act, to leave the vicinity of the N7, the Naas road, in Dublin, on a date last month.

She has also been endangering herself there by begging for money in the middle of three busy lanes of traffic.

Earlier, this week Garda Mervin Henson, of Blanchardstown station, who arrested the girl, told Judge Patrick McMahon there were concerns over her and her family?s living conditions.

?They are living in an abandoned house at the side of the train tracks. There?s no running water electricity. They jump on wagons of freight trains to get into town; someone is going to be killed by doing this.?

Judge McMahon said these were ?appalling conditions? and was also told by a probation officer in court that it was a ?child welfare matter?.

The girl had been given bail on condition that she did not go to the N7 where she had been arrested.

However this condition has been repeatedly broken nearly costing the girl her life.


?We got 10 or 11 calls that that she was begging in the middle of three lanes, cars skidded to avoid her,? the garda said.

On Wednesday last, Judge McMahon asked for the HSE to attend the case to outline what assistance it can give in relation to the care of the child.

A solicitor for the HSE said today it had learned that the house had power and a water supply.

However, Garda Paul McGovern said officers from Swords station had visited the abandoned property which he described as ?a single storey stone house?, and ?there were 30 to 40 people at it; it seemed there was no water or electricity?.

Judge McMahon also said he had further concerns over the girl?s welfare such as her method of transport and her begging on busy roads, where he added ?she might be killed?.

Defence solicitor Caroline Egan said she was instructed by the girl?s mother that they intended to return to Romania when they could afford the trip. However, she added that in the mean time ?she is really at risk?.

The HSE stated that on Monday next it would send people to examine the house.

The judge remanded the girl who was accompanied to court today by her mother, to appear again next week pending the inspection of the derelict property in north Co Dublin.
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From: snapper
Posted: 17 May 2008
Roma Situation
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080206/halltext/80206h0001.htm

The above link throws some light in to whats happening in the UK with Roma...
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From: redser
Posted: 19 May 2008
Roma Situation
Excellent link - well worth reading
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From: snapper
Posted: 19 May 2008
Roma Situation
It made me relise just how serious a problem this is going to become, if we sit back and do nothing.
I'm going to send the link to every TD and see what happens
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