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Italy fears violent newcomers

May 16th, 2007 · Post your comment (No Comments)

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ROME (Reuters) – Who invented the mafia? Italy’s left-leaning government asked on Wednesday, reminding the opposition that not only foreigners commit crimes and seeking to quell growing pressure to get tough on immigration.

With a bus hijacked by three Albanians on Tuesday, a woman killed on the Rome metro by a Romanian woman using an umbrella, and headlines like “foreigners kidnap and rape housewife”, the focus has become very much the criminals’ nationality.

But the conservative opposition said on Wednesday it was time to get tough on immigration.

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