The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma has called for the police to step up their efforts against right-wing extremism. The chairman Romani Rose told the "Schwäbische Zeitung" (Wednesday): "I consider right-wing extremism in the police, in special units or in the protection of the constitution to be very questionable. (...) As so often in the past, we must not simply look the other way just so that Germany does not receive negative attention abroad.
Rose spoke out in favor of a detailed investigation of right-wing extremist tendencies in the security authorities. He turned against Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU), who rejects a study on racism among the police.
Rose also commented on the Ulm trial of an arson attack on a Roma family, in which the verdict was expected on Wednesday. According to the indictment, five young men had thrown a torch at a family's caravan in Erbach (Alb-Donau district). In the vehicle that was narrowly missed was a sleeping woman with her nine-month-old son.
"I was pleased that the court and the investigative authorities have seriously dealt with the motive of antiziganism," said Rose of the newspaper. "So far, there is hardly any sense of responsibility in our society in relation to antiziganism, which has its origins deep in German history."
Link: https://www.stimme.de/suedwesten/nachrichten/pl/sinti-und-roma-besorgt-ueber-rechtsextremismus-bei-polizei;art19070,4397586?fbclid=IwAR1CKuqEDzp4APIcMvyWrw420-ZNVtKrp5jp-ENY8luzlHjmlFb9GCWOGjw
