Lunik iX, the city district in the western part of the city of Košice was created in 1979 after the then part of the city where the Roma lived was destroyed, and since then the number of inhabitants has increased three times.
That sad suburb is today called "the last European ghetto" or "the shame of the nation". Eyewitnesses write that a combination of smells of freshly washed clothes and the stench of sewage floats between the dilapidated buildings. Bed linen hangs sadly from the balconies of buildings that have not been renovated since the 1970s.
From dilapidated buildings, without water in the taps, cables hang with which the tenants illegally connect to the electricity of the street lighting.
Lunik, originally settled next to a landfill, is today considered one of the largest Roma communities in Slovakia.
Health standards in the settlement are at the lowest possible level, and diseases such as hepatitis, diarrhea, scabies and meningitis are common, while unemployment has reached a rate of over 90 percent.
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