"I wonder if the protests would be done without being at stake in the Roma people?" Was the first comment by the representative of the Roma in the Croatian Parliament, Veljko Kitasi, on the request of Al Jazeera to comment on this moment that 29 Romani families were recently relocated a residential building in Zagreb's Petrusevac settlement
The city of Zagreb for these needs bought real estate and Roma families were supposed to take over the keys, but were prevented. Protestants claimed that the objects were not adapted for living, and prevented their relocation, with the emphasis that they were not here to protest only because they were Roma.
Later on, with police assistance, Roma families were moved.
But this was not the first time that citizens from this settlement protested against the Roma. It is also not the first time in Zagreb to protest against Roma.
But such images when it comes to Roma and improving their living conditions there are everywhere in the Balkans. But also not only in the Balkans, sociologist and political scientist Srdjan Dvornik warned, but also in Europe, citing examples in the Czech Republic, "a state that is considered by the post-socialist community as being civilized, and which does not treat the Roma better than these "Our region.
Link: http://www.romskiportal.com/2019/07/08/zasto-su-romi-nepozeljni-susjedi/
