Berlusconi tells Italy to close borders to
Romanians to stop crime

Opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi has urged Italy to close its borders to Romanian
workers and a conservative ally has called for the expulsion of tens of thousands of immigrants after a waive of alleged crimes by foreigners.

Berlusconi told La Stampa newspaper that Italy should enact a moratorium against Romanian workers after the savage beating of an Italian naval commander's wife triggered a national debate about deporting foreign criminals last week.

"If I were in the government, I would have done it," the billionaire media mogul and former premier was quoted as saying.


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Italian authorities say statistics show foreigners commit a disproportionate number of crimes in Italy. Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said 75 per cent of arrests in the city in the last year involved Romanians.

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And since they let us travel freely the impossible happened!WE MADE THE ENGLISH SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ON THEIR OWN SOIL!

"The metropolitan police have been issued with a card that has some handy Romanian phrases on them , this is due to the rising crime rate caused by Romanians."

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According to the estimates of UNAIDS, some 6500 people in Romania were infected with HIV in 2003. Despite the relatively low overall level of infection, Romania is one of the countries with the highest rates of new infection WORLD-WIDE. In particular, the trends among prostitutes and children are disturbing.


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CRIME: While most crimes in Romania are non-violent and non-confrontational, crimes do occur in which victims suffer personal harm. Crimes against tourists, including robbery, mugging, pickpocketing and confidence schemes, remain a problem in Romania. Organized groups of thieves and pickpockets operate in train stations and on trains, subways, and buses in major cities. A number of thefts and assaults have occurred on overnight trains, including thefts from passengers in closed compartments. Money exchange schemes targeting travelers are common in Romania. Some of these ploys have become rather sophisticated, involving individuals posing as plainclothes policemen, who approach the potential victim, flash a badge and ask for the victim's passport and wallet. In many of these cases, the thieves succeed in obtaining passports, credit cards, and other personal documents. Credit card and Internet fraud remain among the most common crimes affecting foreigners in Romania


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The secret Cabinet Office paper sent to Tony Blair and senior ministers highlights the risk of a sharp rise in street violence, people-trafficking, prostitution, cash-machine thefts and fraud.

The document claims that Romanian crime gangs are behind an astonishing "80-85 per cent" of cash machine crime in Britain - even before the country joins the EU.

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INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - It is estimated that about 30 percent of sex workers in Bucharest are under 18 years of age. There are indications that Romanian teenage boys and girls are involved in the sex trade in the countries of Western Europe. Romania is a country of origin and transit for internationally trafficked women and girls from Moldova, Ukraine, and other parts of the former Soviet Union to Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Portugal, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, and Cambodia for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
v The number of missing children reported missing in Romania has steadily increased from 244 in 2003, to 660 in 2004, to 750 in 2005.

v There are an estimated 100,000 homeless children throughout Eastern Europe, including 2,000 in Romania. Child trafficking and child prostitution are problems in Romania and represent a large threat throughout Eastern Europe. Homeless or "street" children are frequent victims. An estimated 5 percent of the homeless children in Romania are forced into child prostitution.

v An estimated 30% of sex workers in Bucharest are under 18 years of age. Romania, and in particular Bucharest, is one of the key travel destinations in Europe for child sex offenders.

COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TOURISM - Romania, and in particular Bucharest, is one of the key travel destinations in Europe for paedo-sexual offenders. The street-children are frequently victims. It is estimated that five per cent of the homeless children in Romania are forced into sexual exploitation. As a reaction, there has recently been an increase in the numbers of arrests, with foreign perpetrators receiving long prison sentences in Romania.