When I was 10 years old, living in my home country of Slovakia, I was shot in the left side of my chest by a racist neighbour who on the previous day had shouted at me: "I'm gonna shoot you, you dirty Gypsy!" The racist neighbour shot me with a bb gun while I was walking home from school with my little brother.
I remember the pain all too well and still have scars from this event decades later. For months after this attack I was to afraid to leave the house.
A few days ago, when I saw, through social media, the images of Tünde Budai, a Roma woman from Torokszentmiklos in Hungary, who had been violently attacked and grievously injured by a racist man, I felt I had to contact her. She told me her story and I made a video news report with her from my "home studio".
