Salvini insists: "Enough with the do-goodism towards the Roma, and we must act with social services that are often cautious with them."

Yesterday he returned to calling for bulldozers to "raz" the Roma camp in Milan where four Roma children, all under 14 , live. They ran over and killed 71-year-old Cecilia De Astis in a stolen car. "Enough tolerance and do-goodism towards the Roma," Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said today.

The incident that occurred a few days ago on Via Saponaro has drawn political attention. The League leader, as is his custom, wasted no time: he called for the camp's eviction, the arrest of the pseudo-"parents," and the revocation of parental rights. He also implicated Milan's mayor, Sala , and the left-wing parties, who responded by calling it political "scavenging."

But Salvini isn't satisfied. This morning, he returned to the fray on social media. "We can't ignore it: what happened in Milan is serious. We need to act immediately, with the intervention of social services—too often cautious when families living in caravans or shacks are involved—to help those children and prevent them from repeating the very serious crimes they just committed. Enough with the tolerance and do-goodism toward Roma people and people who are truly difficult to call 'parents.' In all of this, surprise and sadness for those left-wing politicians and journalists for whom the main problem in this whole affair isn't minor thieves and murderers or absent Roma families, but... the League and Salvini," he wrote on Facebook.

The League's new campaign features photos of "real criminals," including Salis.

Meanwhile, his party is taking action. In a statement, he relaunched the security front with "a new anti-crime campaign featuring photos of real criminals. Record-breaking crimes by Bosnians and Romanians in the subway. The Interior Ministry's data on crimes committed on Italian subways in the first five months of the year—the statement reads—certifies that the number of people reported or arrested for burglary on the subway was 26 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 20 from Romania, and 32 of unknown nationality. No other community has such significant numbers. These figures are in line with the same period last year, when they were: 36 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 37 from Romania, and 21 of unknown nationality." The party's statement continues, "The League has launched a campaign to promote the security decree. And since Rome's center-left government has decided to censor posters in the capital because they are unwelcome (under the guise of images created with artificial intelligence), a new summer campaign is being prepared with real photographs that will be released by the end of August." Specifically, it explains, "a group of women are being immortalized, including a bag-snatcher: according to the media, she has racked up 150 crimes in twenty years, avoiding prison partly due to her constant pregnancies. With the new rules, it will be more difficult for her to commit crimes and go unpunished."

Among the images released was that of Avs MEP Ilaria Salis , who appears in a card related to the issue of illegal occupations, a topic already raised several times and criticized by the opposition. "From Rome to Milan, shocked by the death of the woman struck by a stolen car carrying four Roma children, the League is not stopping its campaign in favor of law enforcement and the security decree. Will the left censor reality this time?" the League concludes.

The reactions

Debora Serracchiani , MP and Justice Minister for the Democratic Party, spoke: "I think that nomads are not all the same, just as Italians are not all the same. There are nomads who make mistakes and must pay for them, and there are nomads who want to integrate. That camp is not the one on Via Chiesa Rossa...the one on Via Chiesa Rossa is pursuing an integration project...where the issue of education is fundamental."