Il Manifesto, December 6, 2007
The funeral was for Florin carried out at the courtyard where is the cabin where he lived with his family. That shack of brick and sheet metal that has been on fire Sunday, November 18 probably due to a short circuit, one of the many who flock to this area of \u200b\u200bthe western suburbs of Bologna. The ceremony took place on a muddy clearing dominated by the ring road, adjacent to an abandoned military area and near the new release, still in nearing completion, the airport Marconi. There are about fifty people: for much of the city authorities as the deputy mayor,
It is almost impossible to hear the speech that the Romanian Orthodox priest pronounce the end of the ceremony, stifled by the roar of the machines running and the noise of jackhammers sites for the new bypass. "The insecurity that many Romanians living will continue to bring misery, both the Italians that the Romanians," is one of the few sentences that manage to capture. Right here, between the work that Bologna will equip new and important infrastructure, trapped between high-speed airport new ring road and river Rhine are well known in the shanty town, here Cofferati inaugurated his famous "law-abiding place," making clear some camps along the river
Florin Romanian is not the first victim of the precarious and shacks along the river Rhine in January 2005 Nicolae Vladutu died in the fire of his own cabin on the river Rhine in September 2006
Cristinel, padre di Florin, lavora in nero nei cantieri edili bolognesi. Fa sorridere l’appello di Cofferati sui giornali, il giorno dopo il tragico episodio: “Ora assumetelo”. È il sindaco della legalità che chiede a degli artigiani edili di regolarizzare una provata situazione di illegalità. E intanto continua a sgomberare i rom rumeni; l’ultimo sgombero, the day before the funeral of Florin, in a disused factory, not far from the beer.
A hundred yards from the site of the ceremony, a Romanian working to trowel on the door of a building under renovation. "I was illegal until January of this year - he says. - Then a three-month period. Now let's see. " Here comes the foreman, "there is work and there is, how can I pull ahead."
Craftsmen and construction workers will spend a lot of beer because of the way of the Triumvirate and, for the work of the bypass, but also because the locals. Along the Via Emilia, not far from the Beer and barracks of the Rhine, there is a warehouse of building materials before whom every morning Romanian workers are "hired" by small artisans.
In a bar a small business owner tells us: "I too have a Romanian worker, but in order, because I work in sub-contracting of public works and I'm forced to put in order. But the work will last two to three months, we can not do long contracts. " Two or three months. The words of these craftsmen explain much of the death of Florin, the son of a construction worker employed in precarious and black, who died because he had a home worthy of the name.
Here the experience of the consequences of the new decree passed by the government in the wake the murder in Rome of Giovanna Reggiani. The decree, which establishes rules relating to forcible expulsion of EU citizens, has so far been used mainly by the prefects against Roma in Romania. One of the most immediate impact of this measure, and print campaign that accompanied it, is precisely to make the Romanian workers more vulnerable to blackmail by their "owners". For these workers the situation was partially improved with the acquisition of the status of Community nationals in January 2007 for not risking more than the return if no permit has given them peace of mind and negotiating power in the workplace. The new Order now return you to the risk of expulsion, although for reasons of "public order". You just have to keep quiet and work, in any condition. Far from making "safe" streets of Bologna, the crack anti-Romanian produces a more precarious and, for some, a tendency to return to barracks.
The inhabitants of the Italian beer coexist for a long time with the slums, many are also the Romanians living in the area and who have managed to take a house to rent. It will not be Tor di Quinto, but even here the writing with a few sprays on the walls - "stop immigration," the way the Romanians "- speak for themselves. "The issue of slums is a thorn in the side of the local population - explains a resident of the area -. Florin's death may have caused a small wave of emotion and emotional involvement, but people here continues to remain indifferent if not hostile, to the Romanians. Moreover, even among Italians that the situation is not much: the population is largely elderly, there are no venues, the people's house or the parish no longer meeting places for some time. " The poor attendance at Orthodox ceremony on Saturday, but also to the Catholic parish organized a few days before, says a lot about this mutual indifference: "Cohabitation is here impossible - another inhabitant tells us - our worlds are too far away. Many who had bought a house in the new buildings were sold after two or three years, looking for a house in nearby countries. "
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