"""Wartime Refugee Evacuee"" Costume Sold By a UK Fancy Dress Retailer is Yanked Off Amazon in Italy after Carnival Complaints Amazon.it has removed from its online catalog a ""refugee"" fancy dress costume for children after a barrage of complaints. The flap over the insensitive costume on sale for 24-30 Euros emerged the day after corpses of 20 children were retrieved from the Aegean sea, and dozens more were rescued in horrific, cold conditions as Mediterranean sea crossings continue through the winter. ""Maybe the company could invest the same money to buy a lifejacket for a child who perhaps finds him or herself in this moment in the middle of the sea,"" commented Oliviero Forti, of the Caritas Catholic charity. ""This commercial message in such a delicate moment in history is truly shameful and should be stigmatised."" Amazon.it agreed the product was ""in terrible taste"" and removed it from its online offerings. I had a look and it appears the UK retailer, Rugby-based ""Fancy Me"" is still selling the outfit featuring WW1 and WW2 era refugee girl and boy carrying tiny suitcases in the UK, on amazon.uk. The outfit is apparently frequently sold with an ""evacuee tag."""
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