Racial prejudice against Sinti and Roma is a problem - especially in contact with authorities, the existential impact on those affected.
A Serbian family, which wants to make an application for benefits under the Social Code II, is insulted by the clerk at the counter of a Berlin job center: "I do not want to see your documents. I do not want to have anything to do with Gypsies. "When the woman in question begins to cry, security personnel eject her.
This is what the brochure of the Documentation Center Antiziganism (Dosta), published by the association Amaro Foro on Tuesday, says. The booklet is full of examples like this. For five years, the Senate-funded documentation center has been collecting incidents and evaluating them. One of the key insights that Amaro Foro draws from this:
Antiziganism, that is racism against members of the Sinti and Roma or against people who are considered as such, encounters those affected in all areas of life. And he comes from the middle of society, not just right-wing extremists.
