This World: Gypsy Child Thieves (2009)
Season 6, Episode 4
10/10
Eye opener
8 January 2013
I find this documentary to be well made, well-balanced and presenting the facts as objectively as possible. The film-maker does not judge the people involved, simply presents us with the the crude reality.

To be clear from the beginning, I believe that with a normal education the gypsies would behave as normally as any other nation. However, the first 15 years are catastrophic for most of them as they loose the chance to integrate into the mainstream society and get dragged into the kind of things you see in this documentary.

I lived in Romania for over 25 years and I know the gypsies. When they started moving towards Western Europe I thought that finally, we would see how a "proper" system can deal with the gypsy culture of extracting "easy" money from unwary victims such as the typical Westerner.

I was totally puzzled by their inability to deal with the gypsy crime. I could never understand how did they allow kids that young, alone on the streets? I lived in Canada and if that would happen there, the police would be at your door in matter of minutes and social services would take the kids from you. Now, this documentary reveals the fact that the child social services in both Italy and Spain are a joke, riddle with incompetent, indolent people and that's why children are still exploited on the streets of Madrid, Milan and many other "civilized" cities.
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