The head of an NGO supporting Roma
and travellers charged firebrand Northern League leader Matteo
Salvini Friday with being "like Hitler," saying he had
"instigated racial hatred" in the wake of public outrage over a
fatal car accident involving Roma youths in Rome.
"Salvini like Hitler? The incitement to hatred and his
propaganda is very similar to what happened in Germany in the
1930s," Dijana Pavlovic, head of the "Roma-Sinti Together
Foundation, told Radio 24.
"I hope not to compare anyone to Hitler today or in the
future," she said, "but only yesterday I brought an action
against the League's (Gianluca) Buonanno who in a television
broadcast called me 'scum of society'. That is the principle
under which the Nazis exterminated half a million people".
Asked if Salvini was like Hitler, Pavlovic was quoted as
saying "Salvini instigates racial hatred, now anybody is allowed
to say whatever they want, later I don't know what they will
allow themselves to do".
Speaking about an accident in which a woman was run down
and killed by a car driven by speeding teen fugitive Roma in the
capital, Pavlovic said "nobody denies that there are problems in
the Roma camps".
"The politicians and the police have turned a blind eye.
There have never been serious policies to integrate the Roma,
there have only been policies to do business, policies with
which everyone got fat, except the Roma."
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