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Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini (centre) has ordered his department to prepare a dossier on solving 'the Roma Question'
Waiting for the grander vision to emerge
ITALIAN Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s order that all Roma people in the country be registered so that “non-Italians” among them can be expelled looks like fascism.
This is not an unexpected departure from the League leader.
Salvini has repeatedly called for Roma camps to be “razed to the ground.”
Opposition MPs are right to compare his planned register — which he says will follow on from his ministry preparing “a dossier on the Roma question” — to the race laws of Mussolini, but it is unlikely that the comparison will bother Salvini, who has made no secret over the years of his admiration for the founder of fascism, praising the dictator for his “dedication to Italy.”
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