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Funeral held for Kostas Frangoulis, Roma teen who died in hospital after being shot during police chase

Over 1,500 mourners gathered in the Thessaloniki suburb of Evosmos on Thursday for the funeral of 16-year-old Kostas Frangoulis, the Roma teenager who died in hospital on Tuesday after being shot by police last week.

 “Today all of society must be united. Today we are all Roma,” Theofilos Alexopoulos the family’s lawyer said in a statement.

The Frangoulis family held a viewing at their home where community gathered to mourn over the open coffin, his head covered with a white baseball cap; some placed banknotes in the coffin as is Roma tradition.

Playing traditional mournful music and a favourite song of the teen’s, they formed a procession following the hearse to the cemetery for his burial.

Giorgos Stamatis, Greece’s Labor Ministry’s Secretary General for Social Solidarity and Fighting Poverty attended the funeral.

He is quoted by Kathimerini as saying “Today is a difficult day, a sad day. We bid farewell to a young person… who didn’t have time to live his life and leaves behind a young wife and child.”

 

Link: https://neoskosmos.com/en/2022/12/16/news/greece/funeral-held-for-kostas-frangoulis-roma-teen-who-died-in-hospital-after-being-shot-during-police-chase/

A book on the fate of the Roma in Tesanj by Amir Brka

The Association for Modern History and the Center for Culture and Education Teshanj have published the book "Kenotaf for the murdered Roma from Tesanj", by the author Amir Brka.

The author described the journey of the Roma from their Indian homeland to the Bosnian town of Teshanj and carefully described their fate in the war. He went on to show how Roma victims were manipulated after the war, and then debunked the myth of their alleged rescue. This book is a testament to the importance of researching suffering in a microspace without preconceived notions. Amir Brka researched in detail the extermination of the Roma community in Tesanj in World War II, discovered the key culprits of our culture and science and offered a book that is much more than classical history, wrote historian Husnija Kamberovic.

 

Link: https://www.portal-udar.net/najavljena-knjiga-o-sudbini-roma-u-tesnju-autora-amira-brke/

Rada Modic breaks down prejudices

Rada Modic is 26 years old and is one of the few women who love football, and has been actively involved in this sport since she was fifteen. He tried his hand on the field, he was a referee, he is currently a delegate of the Premier League, and he hopes that he will soon become the coach of UEFA.

She participated in tournaments with the boys in elementary school, not even imagining that it would lead her to the job she is doing now. When she enrolled in the high school in Banja Luka, she had the opportunity to play football in a women's club for the first time, so she spent the next three years in the women's football club "Borac".

Rada is also one of the initiators for the formation of the women's football section in Prnjavor, which has existed since last year and which has about 20 girls who break all prejudices that football is a "male sport" and advocate for women in sports. And as a future coach of UEFA, she advises girls who have similar affinities to persevere in their desires because only persistent people reach the goal.

Besides football, which is her great love, Rada is the mother of a four-year-old girl Maria, she is a veterinary technician by profession and is not employed in the profession. In addition to football, in his spare time he helps his wife Dejan take care of their flock of sheep.

"I would like my child to do any sport one day."

 

Link: https://www.portal-udar.net/rada-modic-srusila-predrasude-i-uspjela-u-muskom-svijetu/

Ukraine’s Roma refugees recount discrimination

Hundreds of Ukraine’s Roma people face an uncertain future in Moldova’s capital Chisinau as many are not documented.

Cristina, 41, is one of them. She lost everything she owned after Russia bombed her house in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv.

“Kharkiv is like my palm now. People’s houses and the city centre are destroyed, there’s absolutely nothing left,” she told Al Jazeera.

As bombs were destroying the only home she ever had, all she could do was grab her children and leave. Now, she sits in the middle of the running track, with no documents or clue about her next steps.

“If a bomb falls on your house and you hear a tank shooting, what will you grab first, documents or your children,” she asked.

Cristina travelled from Kharkiv to Lviv, then to the Moldovan border. But there, she said, she spent four days in the cold waiting to enter Moldova, without any food or water.

Once they found shelter, she and other Roma were chased out of their tents by the Ukrainian border authorities.

Cristina is one of an estimated 400,000 Ukraine’s Roma people who, besides the trauma of war, have to cope with discrimination along their evacuation route out of Ukraine.

 

Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/ukraines-roma-refugees-recount-discrimination-on-route-to-safety

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