Rome is already over-run with gypsies who rape, pillage and loot with abandon because the idiot PC authorities are afraid to single them out. Rome should follow France and deport the bastards. They particularly prey on tourists, using boys and girls to distract and rob you. The underage can’t be prosecuted.
You really can’t tell the difference between Italians and Gypsies around Rome unless you interview them.
Those Gypsies are bad news. They harassed me for about a half hour at the foot of the Eiffel Tower one evening. Being afraid of heights I waited on my group at the bottom. It wasn’t 10 minutes before they started sending their kids over to my bench shaking a cup under my nose for a handout. I kept saying no and they got more and more aggressive until the mother came over and shook the cup at me. I said no again and then she put a curse on me. Finally the Gendarmes came cruising through and they scattered like Quail. All in all an unerving experience.