A police academy has been built at the place where Elvis Berisha’s house was burnt, and then demolished together with the whole Roma settlement. This is part of the childhood of this criminologist and Roma activist whose family ran away from persecution from Danilovgrad in 1995.

- I remember when the inspector got in our house and pointed the electric taser, we the children were lying on the ground like sardines, he said – you have to leave the settlement right now! We were crying and left our home early in the morning.

As the President of the NGO – Phiren Amenca and also a member of the UPRE initiative he mentioned that the persecution of the Roma in Danilovgrad happened after the rape where several members of the Roma community were involved in the incident. The state then, after being pressured by the UN paid a compensation to 70 families and yet they remained under the radar of the public.

- It was a scary day. All of the locals gathered and burned down our houses. The police was just observing this horror from the sides and didn’t react. Several older people tried to negotiate, but there was no success.

You have to kno0w that throughout the history, the Roma never caused any wars!

Link: https://www.pcnen.com/portal/2021/03/17/romi-nisu-pokrenuli-nijedan-rat/?fbclid=IwAR10USiZOTOJpfdtzEpVpcZS5qbTR0t523p_8rg9wN_8Hb39lMHFLi-C-NU

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