Thread: ITALY: Fatal crash sparks immigration ire

Fatal crash sparks immigration ire
Moldovan car- chase killer had received expulsion order



(ANSA) - Rome, July 18 - The issue of illegal immigration was back in the headlines on Friday after a Moldovan man driving a stolen van killed a 20-year-old student after a high-speed police pursuit through Rome.

Ignatiuc Vasile, 23, was arrested on murder charges after he drove the Fiat Scudo through red traffic lights at 160 kmph and ploughed into a Citroen C3 with three people aboard.

Chemistry student Rocco Trivigno died as a result of the crash, while his sister and her boyfriend were taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Public fury over the accident was fuelled by the fact that Vasile, an illegal immigrant, had received an expulsion order in May.

''This is extremely serious - the fact that someone who had been expelled was still driving around Rome is not acceptable,'' said Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno.

Opposition Democratic Party senator Luigi Lusi said the incident revealed ''enormous holes in the system''and called for police to be given greater powers to enforce expulsion orders.

In an interview with an Italian radio station, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said that expulsion was ''a problem'', but that the government's emergency security decree included more efficient measures, including the opening of ten new holding centres.

''Illegal immigrants issued with expulsion orders should be sent to one of the holding centres, but at the moment because the existing centres are all full they are allowed to go free,'' he explained.

The centre-right government swept to power in April promising to crack down on immigrant crime after a number of high-profile murder cases involving illegal immigrants shocked the nation.

Maroni is pushing for illegal immigration to become a jailable offence, while the emergency security decree boosts prison terms for foreigners who commit crimes.
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