CEDH · PRESS;HEARINGS;ENG — 20 octobre 2005

.s3ABFC313 { font-size:10pt } .s85646119 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } The applicants, who are two families of Former Yugoslavian nationals of gypsy origin, arrived in Italy after fleeing the war in Former Yugoslavia. They lived in the Casilino itinerants’ camp 700, situated in the area administered by Rome City Council.   In 1995 Rome City Council organised a census of itinerants during which the names and photographs of the applicants were recorded in a register. An order of Rome City Council dated 23 January 1996 showed that the census had revealed that 5,467 itinerants were living in 50 different locations (official or unofficial camps) in the area administered by Rome City Council. 927 itinerants were living in the Casilino 700 camp, which was an unofficial camp. In the above-mentioned order Rome City Council decreed that no further unofficial camps should be set up and that itinerants would not be admitted to or granted permanent residence in the official camps unless they had valid residence permits.   On 3 March 2000 the Rome police inspected the Casilino 700 camp. The applicants allege that at about 2 a.m. they were woken by four hundred armed police officers and forced to leave their caravans. Once they had been identified, they were taken to Fiumicino airport, made to board a specially chartered aeroplane and flown to Sarajevo. After their expulsion, they stayed in Sarajevo. Some of the applicants had previously received an order to leave Italian territory because they did not have valid residence permits; the other applicants received a deportation order on 3 March 2000 itself, together with an order for them to be immediately removed from Italian territory.   The applicants complain, among other things, of the manner in which they were deported and the lack of an effective remedy to challenge their deportation; they allege that their deportation constituted discriminatory treatment and that it was a collective expulsion, prohibited by Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 to the Convention; they complain of the living conditions in the Casilino 700 camp; they allege that their deportation to Bosnia-Herzegovina has put them in a life-threatening situation because the Roma are persecuted in that country; they allege, further, that their deportation to their country of origin constitutes an unjustified infringement of their family life because they have no ties with Bosnia-Herzegovina.   They rely on Articles 3, 5, 8, 13 and 14 of the Convention, Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 7.