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20 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 26, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 26, 2011 - Botanikos, Athens, Greece:Franco is a little boy who works all day and sometimes even during the night in the burnt junk yard where he collects scrap metal in order to sell it. Majority of migrant Albanian gypsy families use tourist visa which renew every six months, otherwise they become illegal. Gypsies' relocation from this Botanikos' private and by force occupied land to another place in order to find clean water, sanitary and schools, seems impossible due to Greek crisis. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
1 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Roma woman holding a crying baby all tied up. Majority of migrant Albanian gypsy families use tourist visa in order to live in Greece, which they renew every six months, otherwise they become illegal. Gypsies' relocation from this Botanikos' private and by force occupied land to another place in order to find clean water, sanitary and schools, seems impossible due to Greek crisis. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
14 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
2 Titulek: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria retrouvée Popis: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria a été retrouvée la semaine derničre chez un couple de Roms a Farsala, lors d’un banal contrôle de police dans une zone suspectee pour trafic de drogue. Les tests ADN ont montré que le couple avec qui vivait la petite fille n'étaient pas ses parents biologiques. La justice a placé en détention provisoire, lundi, les faux parents de la fillette. Le couple est accusé d’enlčvement. La police essaie maintenant de retrouver les vrais parents du petit ange blond. Handout photo provided by the Hellenic Police, is a four-year-old girl reportedly named Maria, who was found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on October 21, 2013 in Athens, Greece. The Roma couple are due to appear in court today in Larissa, Greece, on charges of abducting the young girl, who was found on Wednesday October 16th, 2013, at a Roma settlement near Farsala in central during a police raid of the area for suspected drug trafficking.
9 Titulek: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria retrouvée Popis: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria a été retrouvée la semaine derničre chez un couple de Roms a Farsala, lors d’un banal contrôle de police dans une zone suspectee pour trafic de drogue. Les tests ADN ont montré que le couple avec qui vivait la petite fille n'étaient pas ses parents biologiques. La justice a placé en détention provisoire, lundi, les faux parents de la fillette. Le couple est accusé d’enlčvement. La police essaie maintenant de retrouver les vrais parents du petit ange blond. Handout photo provided by the Hellenic Police, is a four-year-old girl reportedly named Maria, who was found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on October 21, 2013 in Athens, Greece. The Roma couple are due to appear in court today in Larissa, Greece, on charges of abducting the young girl, who was found on Wednesday October 16th, 2013, at a Roma settlement near Farsala in central during a police raid of the area for suspected drug trafficking.
8 Titulek: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria retrouvée Popis: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria a été retrouvée la semaine derničre chez un couple de Roms a Farsala, lors d’un banal contrôle de police dans une zone suspectee pour trafic de drogue. Les tests ADN ont montré que le couple avec qui vivait la petite fille n'étaient pas ses parents biologiques. La justice a placé en détention provisoire, lundi, les faux parents de la fillette. Le couple est accusé d’enlčvement. La police essaie maintenant de retrouver les vrais parents du petit ange blond. Handout photo provided by the Hellenic Police, is a four-year-old girl reportedly named Maria, who was found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on October 21, 2013 in Athens, Greece. The Roma couple are due to appear in court today in Larissa, Greece, on charges of abducting the young girl, who was found on Wednesday October 16th, 2013, at a Roma settlement near Farsala in central during a police raid of the area for suspected drug trafficking.
5 Titulek: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria retrouvée Popis: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria a été retrouvée la semaine derničre chez un couple de Roms a Farsala, lors d’un banal contrôle de police dans une zone suspectee pour trafic de drogue. Les tests ADN ont montré que le couple avec qui vivait la petite fille n'étaient pas ses parents biologiques. La justice a placé en détention provisoire, lundi, les faux parents de la fillette. Le couple est accusé d’enlčvement. La police essaie maintenant de retrouver les vrais parents du petit ange blond. Handout photo provided by the Hellenic Police, is a four-year-old girl reportedly named Maria, who was found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on October 21, 2013 in Athens, Greece. The Roma couple are due to appear in court today in Larissa, Greece, on charges of abducting the young girl, who was found on Wednesday October 16th, 2013, at a Roma settlement near Farsala in central during a police raid of the area for suspected drug trafficking.
3 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
17 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
6 Titulek: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria retrouvée Popis: "L'ange blond" : Une fillette de 4 ans prénommée Maria a été retrouvée la semaine derničre chez un couple de Roms a Farsala, lors d’un banal contrôle de police dans une zone suspectee pour trafic de drogue. Les tests ADN ont montré que le couple avec qui vivait la petite fille n'étaient pas ses parents biologiques. La justice a placé en détention provisoire, lundi, les faux parents de la fillette. Le couple est accusé d’enlčvement. La police essaie maintenant de retrouver les vrais parents du petit ange blond. Handout photo provided by the Hellenic Police, is a four-year-old girl reportedly named Maria, who was found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on October 21, 2013 in Athens, Greece. The Roma couple are due to appear in court today in Larissa, Greece, on charges of abducting the young girl, who was found on Wednesday October 16th, 2013, at a Roma settlement near Farsala in central during a police raid of the area for suspected drug trafficking.
24 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
19 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
4 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
31 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
12 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
25 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
18 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
13 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
23 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011- Botanikos, Athens, Greece: 10 years old Zosefine carries a plastic bag with toys that she collected from the streets and garbage. Zosefine, was born in Botanikos Roma' township after the arrival of her parents from the Albanian gypsy-city El Basan. Majority of migrant Albanian gypsies use tourist visa which renew every six months, otherwise they become illegal. Gypsies' relocation from this Botanikos' private and occupied land to another place in order to find clean water, sanitary and schools, seems impossible due to the Greek crisis. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
10 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
7 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Botanikos, Greece: October 22, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Georgia, a gypsy girl sitting on a throne like trashed sofa in the slum. 800 Albanian gypsies live under extreme unhealthy conditions since 2000 in a township on an occupied, private property, only three km below Acropolis. Greek authorities are not able to transfer the gypsies to another legal land in order to gain access to clean water, sanitary and electricity- due to financial crisis. (Maro Kouri / polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
15 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011- Athens, Greece: Baby stands in the squater of the gypsy slum, three km below Acropolis. More than 900 Albanian Roma live in an occupied land with no access to clean water or sanitaty and their relocation is impossible due to greek crisis. (Maro Kouri / Polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
22 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
29 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
11 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Gypsy girl plays with a plastic flower in the gypsy township. 800 Albanian gypsies live under extreme unhealthy conditions since 2000 in a township on an occupied, private property, only three km below Acropolis. Greek authorities are not able to transfer the gypsies to another legal land in order to gain access to clean water, sanitary and electricity- due to financial crisis. (Maro Kouri / polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
16 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011 -Athens, Greece: Gypsy child and grandmother stand at the wooden stairs of their squater in front of garbage fire. 800 Albanian gypsies live under extreme unhealthy conditions since 2000 in a township on an occupied, private property, only three km below Acropolis. Greek authorities cannot relocate the gypsies to another legal land with access to clean water, sanitary and electricity, due to financial crisis. (Maro Kouri / Polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
21 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Gypsy baby plays on the stairs of the selfmade, wooden squater betwen a dog and a goat. More than 800 Albanian gypsies live under extreme unhealthy conditions since 2000 in a township on an occupied, private property, only three km below Acropolis. Greek authorities are not able to transfer the gypsies to another legal land in order to gain access to clean water, sanitary and electricity- due to financial crisis. (Maro Kouri / polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
26 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011 - Athens, Greece:Gypsy children hold a piece of bread and a plastic gun, in front of a selfmade grill made by cut barrel and a pan to cook the food with. 800 Albanian gypsies live under extreme unhealthy conditions since 2000 in a township on an occupied, private property, only three km below Acropolis. Greek authorities are not able to transfer the gypsies to another legal land in order to gain access to clean water, sanitary and electricity- due to financial crisis. (Maro Kouri / Polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
27 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011 - Athens, Greece: 15-year old mother plays with other children in the township. 800 Albanian gypsies live under extreme unhealthy conditions since 2000 in a township on an occupied, private property, only three km below Acropolis. Greek authorities are not able to transfer the gypsies to another legal land in order to gain access to clean water, sanitary and electricity- due to financial crisis. (Maro Kouri / polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
30 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 26, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 26, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Children play cards in the slum's coffee shop. Majority of migrant Albanian gypsy families use tourist visa in order to live in Greece, which they renew every six months, otherwise they become illegal. Gypsies' relocation from this Botanikos' private and by force occupied land to another place in order to find clean water, sanitary and schools, seems impossible due to Greek crisis. Gypsies below Acropolis' slum survive by selling scrap or by stealing. (Maro Kouri / Polaris). In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
34 Titulek: Albanian gypsies face poverty in Greece Popis: October 22, 2011, Athens, Greece: October 22, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Gypsy girl plays with a balloon and her baby brother near the stove in the squatter to cook the food with. 800 Albanian gypsies live under extreme unhealthy conditions since 2000 in a township on an occupied, private property, only three km below Acropolis. Greek authorities are not able to transfer the gypsies to another legal land in order to gain access to clean water, sanitary and electricity- due to financial crisis. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
36 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. ///Little Roma girl holds her baby-brother outside their shanty as her family goes to work and collect metal trash and cables from the streets of Athens.
37 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
28 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
35 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.