An awful picture of Italy

[Sally Donaldson]

I think the real issue is that the Italian Authorities were responsible for leaving the Roma girls'' bodies there. I raised this on another Forum, and one of the replies there doubts whether this photo and story is authentic as there is no evidence of wet sand surrounding the bodies.

I Have checked the ANSA website and cannot find the story. Has anyone in Italy heard or read anything in Italy???

[Sally Donaldson]

ANSA.it

[Sally Donaldson]

Check the article again. There are loads of comments posted at the end of it. The picture that shames Italy - Europe, World - The Independent

PS I typed in Giornale Napoli into Google and still haven't found anything.

[Charles Phillips]

Bimbe annegate, i corpi tra i bagnanti

[sueflauto]

Originally Posted by Sally Donaldson

I raised this on another Forum, and one of the replies there doubts whether this photo and story is authentic as there is no evidence of wet sand surrounding the bodies.

Possibly because the period they'd been there meant the sand had dried.

[Sally Donaldson]

Al Jazeera English - Europe - Italians 'sunbathe by Roma bodies'

Italian outrage over Roma drowning photos - CNN.com

CNN Report with additional photos - Italian outrage over Roma drowning photos - CNN.com

Two children of the Roma ethnic group drown in Naples

[Sally Donaldson]

Originally Posted by sueflauto

Possibly because the period they'd been there meant the sand had dried.

Sue yes that is what I reckoned to and said so in my reply to her.

[anne2]

Originally Posted by Sally Donaldson

I think the real issue is that the Italian Authorities were responsible for leaving the Roma girls'' bodies there. I raised this on another Forum, and one of the replies there doubts whether this photo and story is authentic as there is no evidence of wet sand surrounding the bodies.

I Have checked the ANSA website and cannot find the story. Has anyone in Italy heard or read anything in Italy???

Napoli: due ragazze morte in mare | tiscali.notizie

The girls did drown - whether the rest is true I can't say as I have not seen the television news nor read a newspaper recently. Certainly the UK press has picked up on it and it has been widely reported, but how accurately?

[Gala Placidia]

Something like this, if true, is absolutely outrageous and the Italian authorities should have not left the bodies of the unfortunate girls like this. The tourists, sunbaking, also shows horrendous insensitivity. Are we becoming too inhumane?

[Sally Donaldson]

I had e-mailed the article to my Italian friend before I found backup articles. His quick response prior to going off to work this morning was "Nothing like that happened in the last few days at least. We might be bad but not that bad ...:-)" Probably he was either on the beach on Saturday and out in the evening so missed the news???

An aside, does Italy have "Sunday" papers like The Sunday Times etc???