the moment police are not revealing the circumstances surrounding had other girl. >>> aaron mclaughlin, cnn, london. >> so the suspected abduction of little maria by this couple has the entire roma community in greece on edge. you can imagine here. they fear a backlash because this case plays into old prejudices about the romas stealing children for forced labor. discrimination against the roma dates back centuries. watch. >> they are europe's poorest citizens and largest minority. numbering about 10 to 12 million. the european union says 90% live below the poverty line. many in ramshackle camps or care va vans, isolated and detested by the rest of society. they've been labeled gypsies because of their nomadic heritage and lifestyle. their suffering began from the time they arrived from india, 1,000 years ago. countries passed laws to suppress their culture and keep them out of the mainstream. they were enslaved and hungry and romania in the 15th century. and targeted for extermination by the nazis 500 years later. the u.s. holocaust museum says the fate of the roma in some ways parall

aaron mclaughlin is in ireland with the very latest. >> reporter: in a dublin suburb less than 48 hours ago, the police known as gardi here took a little girl away from her roam malfamily and put her in the care of social services. after a tipoff to the host of a local crime show. >> we were told she had blue eyes, told she was around 7 years of age, told she had blonde hair. the mother and father produced documentation as i understand it, but the guarde were not satisfied with that. >> thousands of miles away in greece, polices are searching for the parents of another fair-haired girl known only as maria. she was found living with a roma community there. the couple posing as her parents now charged with child abduction. >> the claim is that we never abduct this child. we've just adopted. >> though interpol says her dna doesn't match any profile in its database, it is still being compared to that of of lisa irwin. >> i don't know for sure, but just the fact we don't know for sure is enough. >> lisa vanished from her parents' kansas city home two years ago. and though they believe maria

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cnn's aaron mclaughlin is in london with that. good morning, erin. >> reporter: their lawyers certainly had a tough day in court. american amanda knox and her former boyfriend, raffaele sollecito are trying once again to prove their innocence of the murder charges against them. it was a bad day in court for amanda knox's edense team as her retrial began in florence, italy. the judge rejected more than a dozen requests made by knox's lawyer, including for a plea of new tests on key evidence that they believe would clear knox and then boyfriend raffaele sollecito once and for all for the 2007 murder of meredith kircher. >> it's always a bad day when he grants more defense motions. in a high profile case there's a tremendous pressure on the judge to err on the side of letting evidence in rather than keeping it out. >> reporter: the court did grant the defense's request for additional testing on a kippen knife found in sollecito's apartment. knox has always maintain her innocence in the murder of her 21-year-old british roommate. >> i

let's bring in aaron -- erin mclaughlin. >> reporter: she's spend is the a second night in the care of social services. we understand the family is hopeful they could find out whether or not she'll be returned to them as early as today, unlike in greece, no arrests have been made. and no charges have been filed against the family. in a dublin suburb less than 48 hours ago, the police took a little girl away from her roma family and put her in the care of social services. after a tip-off to the host of a local crime show. >> we were told she had blue eyes, told she was around 7 years of age. blond hair. mortgage and father produced documentation as i understand. but the garde were not satisfieded with that. >> reporter: thousands of miles away in greece, the police are searching for the parents of another fair-haired girl, known only as maria. the couple posing as her parents are charged with child abduction. >> their claim is we never abducted this child. we've just adopted. >> reporter: though interpol says maria's dna doesn't match any profile in its data base, it's being compared to