The Italian schoolchildren's drawings which illustrate a chilling hatred for Roma gypsies

The colours are bold and the lines simple, a typical drawing by a nine-year-old.

But the sentiments it reveals are shocking, a glimpse of the xenophobia creeping across Italy.

The picture is one of a number drawn by youngsters at a school outside Naples depicting firebomb attacks on a nearby Roma gipsy camp. Other children at the school exposed their hatred of the immigrants in written work.

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