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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Rome, Trenitalia wants to record the names of passengers if they are Roma
Report and accounts "any other occupants of Roma" running up and down the train to stop Salone, between Rome and Avezzano Tiburtina. The "selection" is assigned to controllers and guard struggling with a pre-printed form Trenitalia (in photo), according to the company but never used in practice, does not mention that passengers without tickets or annoying, but simply the Roma ethnics . An asterisk between bureaucratic
entries, just above the box "comments" section, which triggered the complaint of the independent trade union of railwaymen Fast Railways, which has 3 thousand members, especially among drivers. With a small yellow Railways claims that the form has never been used, but apparently has been around enough to provoke reaction and guard people, scandalized by the prospect having to fill in those boxes.
In a letter addressed to the Minister for Equal Opportunities Mara Carfagna asked to correct the form "by the evident discriminatory intent." "The demand for passenger conductor to indicate the ethnic Roma, merely as such, and without further justification, can not have other reading that discrimination - wrote to the Minister's secretary Fast, Piero Serbs - We believe that this can not be tolerated. So we are asking an intervention. " Intervention but, according to the State Railway is not necessary, because the form was not then "activated".
"And yet everything we do is for the safety of travelers - Explained by the company - stop the show is near a huge nomad camp was closed in 2002 for safety reasons and only reopened by April 1. The matter is very serious in the past there have been threats to travelers, no longer wanted to take the train from that station. The reopening was granted only on condition of strict safety controls, with lots of cameras. The question in that area is known to all administrations.
Employees arise but also practical problems. "How does the staff determine that the customer in question is clearly of Roma? - Calls on Serbs in the letter - the traveler of Roma should be noted, even if lawfully in possession ticket? ". The issue ends on a blog of railway mentioning Bertolt Brecht:" They came to take the gypsies, and I was happy because pilfered. When they took me there was nobody left to protest. "Eleonora Capelli
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pre-printed form Trenitalia
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