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Italy to continue fingerprinting Romas The Italian government is pressing ahead with plans to fingerprint Roma communities, despite criticism from the European Parliament and human rights groups. To avoid claims of discrimination, it may require all Italian citizens to be fingerprinted. Italy may demand all citizens be fingerprinted, a move aimed at defusing criticism of government plans to force Roma people and their children to provide fingerprints as a way of tackling criminality. That policy has been condemned by the European Parliament, by Romania, where many Roma come from, and by religious groups which have compared it to the tagging of Jews by Nazis and fascists in the 1930s. A parliamentary committee agreed on Wednesday that from 2010 all identity cards, which Italians have to carry, should include the bearer's... [read full story]
