Anti-Romanian sentiment in school

A 13-year-old Romanian's attempted suicide at a Padua secondary school has lifted the veil on the discrimination suffered by "the some 70,000 children of Romanian immigrants attending school in Italy", reports Romanian daily, Gândul. "Paula, who has lived in Italy for five years, threw herself from a height because she "stank of Romania," the Bucharest paper reports, this being just one of the insults levelled at her by classmates. "Hers is not an isolated case," the newspaper was told by the president of an association for Romanians iliving in Italy. The association is threatening to turn to the law "if schools do not take steps." Gândul notes that Romanians make up the biggest group among the nearly 700,000 immigrant children enrolled in Italian schools.