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Stereotypes of Roma in Aksu v. Turkey

In the case of Aksu v. Turkey the applicant, mr Aksu, is of Roma origin. He complained about two publications (a book and a dictionary) that included harmful images of Roma, like the suggestion that Roma are stingy, fraudulent and aggressive. In his view, he had been discriminated against on account of his ethnic identity and he felt that these publications harmed his dignity.

 

The Court treats his complaint under art. 14 in conjunction with art. 8. I will discuss the two publications and the Court’s treatment of them separately, as well as the dissenting opinion.


In 2000 the Turkish Ministry of Culture published a book entitled “The Gypsies of Turkey”, written by an associate professor. Among other denigrating insinuations, the author had stated that Gypsies were engaged in illegitimate activities, lived as “thieves, pickpockets, swindlers, robbers, usurers, beggars, drug dealers, prostitutes and brothel keepers” and were polygamist and aggressive.

 

The Turkish Courts denied the applicant’s request that that the sale of the book be stopped and all copies seized.

 

Link: https://strasbourgobservers.com/2010/07/29/the-power-of-definition-stereotypes-of-roma-in-aksu-v-turkey/?fbclid=IwAR1dAatkulZTEhaMpErrnXkB9fGK92TUruseDHkNpUC_PYxJ5bavm8g8j38

When is the end of a pandemic marked?

According to historians and a very interesting and suggestive text from the New York Times, pandemics generally have two types at the end: one is medical, when the rates of infection and mortality will drop dramatically or disappear. The second ending is social, that is, when people stop being afraid.

Despite the interesting view on the issue, the historical reconstruction of some of the biggest pandemics from the past and the opinions of experts, we still come to a certain problem when in a pandemic we distinguish between a "health" and a "social" end.

Pandemics, as far as we know, haunt man for over 5,000 years, and in over 2 millennia we have written notes. Thus, the first was recorded in Athens, 430 BC, shortly before the start of the war with Sparta. Thucydides will write in the History of the Peloponnesian War: "People in good health were suddenly attacked by heatstroke, redness and inflammation of the eyes, throat and tongue, began to bleed and let out an unnatural, foul-smelling breath."

Link: https://www.dw.com/mk/k%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0- -

Surdulica: Double murder and suicide in Surdulica. Reason "love triangle!"

On Monday, June 1, at around 1:45 pm, a double murder and suicide took place in the Roma settlement "Chardachishte" in Surdulica.

According to unconfirmed information, the motive for this murder was an emotional relationship.

According to the report, Dragoljub Ajdic, 52, killed Safet Sinanovic, 52, with his Opel Zafira vehicle.

Then he headed to the home and here he met Eldez Sinanovic, 46, as he was returning from the store, and with a sharp blade and a few stab wounds he killed her on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, he cut his own neck with the same dagger and committed suicide.

All three bodies were incompatible on the road in this Roma settlement.

According to neighbors and eyewitnesses, it is a love triangle where they suspect a love affair between Eldez and Dragoljub.

Paris: A Roma boy from Serbia was seriously injured after being detained by French police

Gabriel Djordjevic (14), a Roma boy from Serbia, according to the portal bondyblog.fr

on the night of May 25-26, he was detained at a police station in the Paris suburb of Bondi. The family found him in a local hospital with head and face injuries. Doctors at the hospital are still struggling to save little Gabriel's sight. He also had three teeth broken.

The family is preparing a lawsuit against the IGPN police, according to the medical report.

The family says that on the critical night, Gabriel, who they emphasize is not a problematic child, did not show up at home until 11 pm, his mother thought he was out with his older brother together for dinner. At about 11 pm, when his older brother Sheriff returned home, he noticed that Gabriel's bed was empty.

Concerned, he went out to look for him in the city, because Gabriel himself did not go anywhere late at night.

On the night of the Bondi police station, the family was told that Gabriel had been detained for allegedly stealing a scooter. When his mother called this morning at 8 and 9 o'clock, no one answered from the police station on her phone.

It was later reported from the hospital that Gabriel had been hospitalized at their hospital.

He was admitted with traumatic injuries to his face and head, vomiting, three broken teeth and a fracture of the left maxillary bone.

In his statement, he stated that around 1:00 am his friend tried to steal a scooter, and that they noticed the police and started fleeing in two opposite directions. The police caught up with him and before arresting him, they first pushed him down, started hitting him in the face and beating him, and then they handcuffed him and arrested him.

Meanwhile, a peaceful protest of about 100 people took place in Bondi, regarding the case and the circumstances that preceded them and to tell the truth about this case.

 

Link: https://ssup.fr/pariz-srpski-decak-tesko-povreden-posle-privodenja-protesti-gradana-protiv-policije/4/

 

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