Italy's far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday slammed as "do-gooding" a European Court of Human Rights order halting the razing of a Roma Gypsy camp in the Italian capital.
"The do-gooding European Court of Human Rights is all we need," Salvini wrote in a Facebook post with a picture of the encampment.
The ECHR suspended the Camping River camp's closure until Friday asking local authorities to indicate meanwhile their plans to re-house its 300 residents including many children, according to the Associazione 21 Luglio rights group.
Rome city council said it was already producing all the documentation "in which the numerous and reiterated accommodation offers are certified, of housing and work made to all the residents."
Solutions offered by the city council to Camping River residents included help finding a place to live and a job or 3,000 euros for their voluntary return to their home countries, the council said.
"The opportunity for camp residents to take up these offers has been extended to 30 September - beyond the deadline of set by the mayor of Rome (Virginia Raggi) with the goal of constantly upholding human rights," the council stated.
The council had given camp residents 48 hours notice of its clearance, which was ordered on Sunday by Raggi, according to Associazione 21 Luglio.