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Italy: Foreigners chased off

01 September 1994

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Mayors in towns near Genoa posted police at railway stations during the summer to chase away Gypsies and non-EC foreigners who try to enter the towns. The mayors claimed that these groups, who came into the towns to sell things on the street, depressed house prices and increased crime.

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