FARSALA, Greece – Gypsies living in a Greek camp are worried they will be all stigmatized as child traffickers after a couple was arrested and accused of abducting a little girl.
The common refrain among many of the 2,000 Gypsies, or Roma, living in prefabricated homes near the central town of Farsala is “Not all Roma steal children. If someone did something, they should pay for it.”
The blonde, blue-eyed girl, who is about 4, was found Wednesday when police raided the camp looking for drugs and weapons. Now, police want to find the biological parents of the girl and will investigate international child trafficking rings.
The president of the local Roma community, Babis Dimitriou, hopes there is no backlash against the community. He says “it doesn’t reflect on all of us.”
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