According to a press release coming EveryoneGroup, an Italian NGO dealing with the protection of the Roma, the Roma camp in Magliana, Rome, was set on fire last Tuesday. The organization reports there are witnesses who saw persons launching Molotov cocktails on the Roma camp in Via Condoni, the Magliana quarter, Rome. The Roma hurried out of the camp when the fire burst out and then there arrived the fire brigade together with policemen. The Italian protectors of the Roma have expressed skepticism about the police investigations, accusing them of superficiality in their search for the authors of it. The EveryoneGroup claims it is about a racist group. Roma camps set on fire in Rome is no news. In the early 2008 several Roma camps suffered the same in Mira Lanza and Aprilia, as reported by our newspaper. Other such camps, like the one in Osmannoro, near Florence, were demolished by authorities. On July 7 the ex Communist mayor Gianni Giannassi ordered that the camp sheltering 120 Roma people, mostly women and children, should be destroyed. According to the EveryoneGrup, as camps are being destroyed by either authorities or unknown agents, there are now left only 3, 000 of the 30, 000 Roma persons in the capital of Italy, as the remaining ones have been seeking shelter in Spain, France or Greece. (G.S.)