Eleven people killed in Czech Republic apartment building fire
Racist - specifically, antigypsyist - commentaries have been posted beneath Czech-language mainstream news articles reporting on Saturday's tragic events in Bohumín, Czech Republic, where 11 people, three of them children, died in a fire in a prefabricated apartment building on Saturday. Media reports on Sunday said the inicident was arson, and some news servers reported the unconfirmed claims of eyewitnesses to the tragedy that police had arrested a Romani man between the age of 50 and 60 in association with the incident.
The speculation was also reported that all of the victims of the tragedy had been Romani. Yesterday morning, according to the CNN Prima News station, Vice-Mayor Igor Bruzl refuted those assumptions. "The tenants of the apartment that was set on fire are not Romani. However, allegedly a Romani guy and a Romani woman were also at the party there, and for that reason, most people are claiming a Romani family was involved," local Romani activist Jolana Šmarhovyčová of the Awen Amenca organization told news server Romea.cz. The correspondent of Roma Times from the Czech Republic Boris Rizman mentioned that among the victims there are still three Roma