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WORLD NEWS Friday 27 July 2018

Police shut gypsy camp in Rome despite EU ruling

By SIMONE SOMEKH Mayor Virginia Raggi wrote City spokesman Gennaro
Associated Press on Facebook that the Barbieri said only 100 had
ROME (AP) — Police in shantytown, established accepted authorities' offer
Rome on Thursday cleared in a former campground to move into government
nearly 400 people, includ- called Camping River on reception centers over the
ing dozens of children, from Rome's northern periphery, last few years, with another
a shanty camp inhabited was closed for hygiene 43 joining them on Thurs-
for years by members of reasons. Parts of the camp day.
the minority Roma commu- had been without electric- Raggi noted that some
nity, despite a European ity and running water. who were not Italian citi-
Union court ruling halting She said that the move was zens had returned to their
demolition. meant to provide greater native Romania in recent
Residents stood outside protection to the Roma, months.
the camp with mattresses especially minors, some While many members of
and other belongings piled of whom do not attend A woman holds a child after being evicted from the Camping Italy's sizeable Roma com-
alongside vehicles, some school. River village which housed a Roma camp, in Rome, Thursday, munity, also known as Gyp-
protesting against the "It is unacceptable to con- July 26, 2018. sies, are of Italian national-
move with chants of "Rac- tinue to finance places like Associated Press ity, many living in the camp
ists!" this that create ghettos, were from Romania, Koso-
Some residents com- and above all, where the man Rights on Tuesday camp residents. But city vo, Bosnia and Serbia. Ital-
plained that police used living conditions don't pro- asked Italian authorities to officials said that they had ian authorities periodically
force during the eviction. tect the rights of children, suspend action until Friday long been working to re- clear out squatter camps
Police commander Anto- women and men," Raggi and outline plans to re- locate residents, and had like Camping River where
nio Di Maggio denied the wrote in a Facebook post. house the community, fol- delayed the planned clos- many live on the outskirts of
claims. The European Court of Hu- lowing an appeal by three ing by more than a year. big cities.q

UK pauses cooperating with US on trial of 'Beatles' jihadis

By DANICA KIRKA American court. drone strike. newspaper reported Mon- Elsheikh demanded a judi-
NISHAT AHMED "We have agreed to a short- In 2014 and 2015, the group day that it had seen a let- cial review of the decision
Associated Press term pause," the Home Of- held more than 20 Western ter from Home Secretary to allow the men to be put
LONDON (AP) — Britain's fice said in a statement hostages in Syria and tor- Sajid Javid to U.S. Attorney on trial in the U.S.
Home Office has temporar- Thursday. "The govern- tured many of them. It be- General Jeff Sessions about Attorneys Gareth Peirce
ily suspended cooperating ment remains committed headed seven American, the two militants, who have and Anne McMurdie said
with U.S. authorities on the to bringing these people to British and Japanese jour- been in custody in Kurdish- they wrote the government
handover of two British ji- justice, and we are confi- nalists and aid workers and controlled northeastern to outline why the decision
hadis allegedly linked to dent we have acted in full a group of Syrian soldiers, Syria since they were cap- was unlawful and "setting
the Islamic State group until accordance of the law." boasting of the butchery in tured earlier this year. out an urgent timetable"
a judge reviews a decision Elsheikh and Alexanda grisly videos. The government pause for the case to be heard in
that would allow the pair Kotey are suspected of be- Britain's The Daily Telegraph came after lawyers for court.q
to be tried in the United ing part of a notorious cell
States. of British jihadis known for
Defense lawyers wrote the beheadings and barbaric
government this week after treatment of hostages in
leaked documents showed Syria.
that British officials were will- The cell was nicknamed
ing to hand over El Shafee "The Beatles" because of
Elsheikh and Alexanda their British accents. The
Kotey without assurances British leader of the cell,
the men would not be sub- Mohammed Emwazi, who
ject to the death penalty if was also known as "Jihadi
they were convicted in an John," was killed in a 2015