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Protesters at an EU Roma summit wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words 'Stop Ethnic Profiling' (Photo: European Commission)

Italy must face legal action for anti-Gypsy measures, says Soros

by Teresa Küchler, Brussels,

Billionaire philanthropist and financier George Soros has said at a top-level EU conference on the problems facing Roma people in Europe that he supports legal action against Italy over recent anti-Gypsy measures, particularly the fingerprinting of adults and children.

"Certainly, fingerprinting, racial profiling and so on is unacceptable and, I believe, illegal, and I hope that the European Court of Justice will take up the case and declare it illegal," the Hungarian-born founder of th...

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Protesters at an EU Roma summit wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words 'Stop Ethnic Profiling' (Photo: European Commission)

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