Inside Farsala: the Roma camp in Greece where blonde four-year-old was found The prosecutor conducting the raid "saw a little blond head poking out from under the bedclothes," said Costas Giannopoulos, director of the charity A Child's Smile, which is now looking after her. It struck her as odd, and that's how it all started. Panayiotis Pardalis, a spokesman for the charity, added: "It was obvious that she was not a Roma girl. She was afraid and under some psychological pressure when she arrived. Colleagues have been trying to communicate but are struggling. In response to an international appeal, it has received more than 5,000 calls since Friday from people looking for their missing children or offering clues. "Mystery - a blonde angel without an identity," top-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea wrote on its front page on Saturday. Little is known about her background. But the authorities said that when she was found she was dirty and shocked. The streets where she lived are cluttered with rubbish, scrap metal and clothes hung out to dry. Rows of single-storey prefabricated houses sit on the Greek plain, with hills in the distance. Greece's Roma community has for centuries been underprivileged and exposed to poverty and discrimination. According to the London-based Minority Rights Group, some 80 per cent of the country's 300,000 Roma are illiterate. Some resort to criminal activity, engendering resentment from the larger Greek community. Scruffy-looking children play among the rubbish - none of them with Maria's distinctive blonde hair and blue eyes. "Her features suggest that she might be from an eastern or northern European country," said Panayiotis Tziovaras, regional police chief. The Roma camp in Farsala. The suspects are alleged to have offered conflicting initial accounts about how they came to have the child - that the girl was found in a blanket, that she was handed to them by strangers or that she had a foreign father. But their lawyer, Marietta Palavra, said they took her out of charity, through an intermediary, while she was just days old from a foreign stranger who said she could not support her daughter. "Just because (the suspect) had forged documents, it doesn't make her a kidnapper," said Ms Palavra. The couple loved the girl as if she were their own.