Italy’s anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ordered a report Tuesday on the country’s Roma population, with a view to shuttering overcrowded, “illegal” camps, provoking an angry response from rights campaigners. The head of the far-right League ordered the country’s regional prefects to draw up “a report on the presence of Roma, Sinti and Caminanti” within two weeks, the interior ministry said in a statement. The Roma, Sinti and Caminanti are traditionally nomadic ethnic groups who have lived in Europe for centuries.
