Statsråd Bjarne Håkon Hanssens argument om at Norge ikke kan sende mullah Krekar tilbake pga manglende legitimitet og risiko for at Norge vil tape en sak for Menneskerettsdomstolen i Strasbourg, trenger ikke være riktig. Italia har nylig vedtatt at de kan utivse EU-borgere som utgjør en sikkerhetsrisiko. Det er brudd på bevegelsesfriheten og «alle» trodde EU-kommisjonen ville protestere. Men EU-kommisjonen har ikke kommet med et eneste kny.

Bakgrunnen er en eksplosiv vekst i kriminaliteten etter at Romania ble medlem av EU. På kort tid er det kommet 560.000 rumenere til Italia, og det er ikke mors beste barn mange av dem. Det sies at kriminaliteten i Romania har gått ned 26 prosent.

Romas borgermester har en sjokkerende statistikk å vise til: 75 prosent av kriminaliteten i Roma er det rumenere som står for.

A former communist and editor of a Left-wing newspaper, Walter Veltroni, the dapper, jazz-loving mayor of Rome, is cutting the amount of the city’s budget spent on caring for beggars, the deprived and immigrants.

Mr Veltroni said that before Romania’s EU accession Rome had been one of the safest cities in Europe. «These are not immigrants who came here to live, but criminal types,» he said.

Tapping into popular sentiment after polls showed 83 per cent of Italians backed forced deportations of immigrants, Veltroni pointed out the crucial facts.

More than 75 per cent of all crime in the capital is now carried out by Romanians since they were allowed to travel freely at the start of this year.

They have been responsible for 76 murders, more than 300 rapes and 2,000 robberies, according to police statistics.

Nearly 400 Romanians have been charged with kidnappings, mostly involving prostitution, and 6,000 with receiving stolen goods.

Tellingly, even the Romanians do not want their own people back: crime has dropped by 26 per cent since they started leaving in their hundreds and thousands.

Roma skal ha vært en av Europas fredeligste storbyer. Nå er mange av byens plasser forvandlet til tilholdssted for løse eksistenser hvor det selges narkotika, sex og omsettes tyvgods. En journalist fra Daily Mail forteller hva han opplevde på kjente Campo Dei Fiori:

The charming piazzas and winding streets are now home to gangs of Roma, selling drugs, women and stolen goods to anyone strolling past in the weak winter sunshine.

Once a quiet residential area near the Vatican City, Campo Dei Fiori was beloved by Romans for its tranquillity and lively fruit and vegetable market.

Ten months after Romania was admitted to the EU, the piazza is now a hellish place at night.

During a five-minute stroll through the square, I was offered drugs ranging from crack cocaine to heroin. Drunken immigrants stagger through the streets, challenging locals to fight.

It was here that a cyclist was attacked and killed by a 15-year-old Romanian boy. And not far away, 22-year-old Vanessa Russo was killed by two Romanian women at Termini underground station in front of scores of tourists.

«There is a total lack of control,» said Flaminia Borghese, president of the Roman residents’ association.

Det var noen riktige grove forbrytelser av Tarantino-typen som fikk begeret til å renne over. Dråpen var drapet og voldtekten på den strengt religiøse Giovanna Reggiani som hadde glemt at klokka var skrudd tilbake og at mørket falt en time tidligere. Da hun steg av toget var det mørkt.

For months, local people had been complaining that the city was being over-run by Romanian criminal gangs. The politicians did not respond.

But what happened during the 30 minutes after Giovanna Reggiani stepped down from her train at Tor di Quinto finally forced Italy’s politicians to listen – and could prompt one of biggest shake-ups in the history of recent European immigration.

As Signora Reggiani started walking alone up the unlit, pot-holed road, a man emerged from near the bonfires at the camp in front of her.

He was Romulus Mailat, an immigrant who four months earlier, following Romania’s entry into the European Union, had legally crossed the border into Italy.

He launched a coldblooded, sustained attack on the immaculately dressed housewife.

He smashed a rock into her face again and again, then carried her over his shoulder to some wasteland where she was brutally sexually assaulted and had 20 Euros (£13) taken from her purse.

After the alarm was raised by an older woman immigrant, Italian paramedics were horrified when they discovered Giovanna’s body in a ditch not far from the station.

Her face was a bloody pulp and they could only tell it was a woman of «indeterminate age» from her clothes.

Barely alive, she was placed on a life support machine at Saint Andrea hospital where she remained in a coma for two days until the machine was switched off last weekend.

As her body was blessed at the Basilica del Cristo in Rome, the dead woman’s husband, Giovanni Gumiero, carried a single red rose – his wife’s favourite flower.

Near to collapse, the dead woman’s husband was hugged by friends and family as her elderly parents followed behind the coffin.

«It’s not fair,» he repeated again and again, weeping quietly. «Why? Why? Why?»

Nå rant det over for italienere som tok loven i egne hender. Gjenger har gått til angrep på tiggere og rumenere, simpelthen fordi de er rumenere. Myndighetene så skriften på veggen. Hvis de ikke foretok seg noe kunne utviklingen bli stygg. Derfor vedtok de at alle som utgjør en trussel mot samfunnet kan utvises, selv om de er EU-borgere.

The authorities were quick to respond. Premier Romano Prodi’s government declared that new legislation would be introduced to expel anyone suspected of being a «threat to public safety».

There would be no need for proof of a criminal record or a trial, and there would be no appeal.

Most observers believed that the EU would step in to block the laws and defend the principle that EU residents can travel freely among member states.

But amazingly, earlier this week, the European Commission said the Italian government was within its rights, so long as each case was treated individually and not used to discriminate against any particular nationality or group.

The decision will put new pressure on the British governnment, which has failed to act on its promise to introduce laws to «automatically deport» foreign nationals who commit major crimes.

The Italians, on the other hand, have wasted no time. This week squads of armed police, backed by helicopters, moved into hundreds of illegal camps set up by an estimated half a million people who have poured into the country this year.

While Romanians tried to flee across waste ground, police bulldozed shacks and arrested hundreds of people, ferrying them to 13 detention centres on the outskirts of Rome.

Thousands of others escaped. At one illegal shanty town in the north of the city, gangs of teenage Romanians stood guard.

I likhet med den norske har den britiske regjering lovet automatisk å utvise kriminelle utlendinger, men det halter.

Parallellen til Krekar-saken er at statsråd Hanssen skyver Den europeiske menneskerettskonvensjonen foran seg. Regjeringen tar et nederlag på forskudd. Men italienernes can-do viser at en regjering fortsatt har ganske vide fullmakter, også til å overtrumfe vitale EU-regler, hvis alvorlige ting står på spill. Er det så sikkert at domstolen i Strasbourg vill gitt medhold til en mann som sier at det er riktig å drepe enhver som snakker mot islam, at det var riktig å drepe den australske fotografen i Nord-Irak når han var så dum å befinne seg nær kurdisk pesh merga. En mann med et slikt syn kan like gjerne orkestrere terror på norsk jord. Og om det nå er i utlandet: det er straffbart å misbruke barn i utlandet, er det mindre straffbart å sprenge folk i lufta? Myndighetenes logikk er merkelig.

Italienerne fikk kniven på strupen. De forsto at noe måtte gjøres, og handlet. Norske myndigheter tar mer hensyn til mullah Krekar enn rikets sikkerhet. Derfor er det absurd at Høyesterett nettopp har slått fast at han er en sikkerhetstrussel. Ved sitt blotte nærvær gjør Krekar narr av rettsstaten. Mon tro om det ikke er derfor han uttaler seg så åpent til ABC-kanalen. Han vet at det er å stikke tommelen i øyet på både Norge og USA.

Det siste argumentet til regjeringen gjelder Krekars fysiske sikkerhet. Men da må man si: en mann som åpent går inn for drap og jihad har mistet retten til å nyte godt av rettssikkerheten. Det var statsminister Tony Blairs konklusjon på slutten av sin regjeringstid: folk som går inn for jihad og åpent hyller selvmordsbombere, bør finne seg et annet sted. De har selv valgt å stille seg utenfor loven.

Savage murder brought a backlash against Italy’s migrants – and laws to expel them