A 37-year-old Romanian-Moldavian, who refers to himself a gypsy, has been sentenced to six years in prison for the kidnapping, rape, and torture of a Romanian girl in Gothenburg. The Romanian gypsy migrant, who according to the police worked as a pimp in Gothenburg, had apparently brought the girl to Sweden with the hope that he would be able to sell her as a prostitute, Swedish news portal Samhällsnytt... 

A police officer prepares to search a group of Romanians living on Park Lane’s central reservation in London Up to 40 beggars have made Park Lane their home, transforming a stretch of the central reservation into a gambling den and doss house On Saturday, in the first part of this major series on the expected imminent influx of unskilled workers from Romania and Bulgaria, we revealed how countless... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma. Sarkozy called a government meeting Wednesday after Gypsies clashed with police this month following the shooting death of a youth fleeing officers in the Loire Valley. Sarkozy... 

Three people have been arrested in Spain over the kidnap of five-year-old British boy Shail Saeed in Pakistan. Two Pakistani brothers and a Romanian woman were held by police at an address in the Mediterranean city of Tarragona, 60 miles from Barcelona. Police are said to have discovered a large part of the money at the flat they shared in the city. The international hunt for the kidnappers had turned... 

Soft touch Britain, created by successive Tory and Labour regimes, has generated so many foreign scroungers that an entire town in Romania lives off benefit fraud, an investigation has revealed. According to a report in The Times newspaper, an estimated £1 billion a year is defrauded from the benefits and tax credits system, with tens of millions of pounds lost to organised crime. There is, according...