Eight-year-old twin brothers lie on an old mattress in a dilapidated house in the Vrela Ribnička neighborhood of Podgorica, and swarms of flies fly around them. They don't speak, they don't move, they don't smile. They cannot complain of pain. Cerebral palsy, from which they both suffer, was not treated in time. Their lives are now seriously threatened.

They do not receive help from the state, because they are stateless - they do not have citizenship or personal documents, even though they were born in Montenegro. Their father Bidaim came from Kosovo 24 years ago. The majority of stateless persons in Montenegro are members of the Roma and Egyptian communities. They suffer multiple discrimination, they do not have the possibility of health and social insurance, the right to disability benefits, to employment...

Bidaim failed to get documents in Montenegro, because he was not registered in Kosovo either and he came here without documents. "When I was born, my father didn't register me, he gave himself up to alcohol and didn't care about me. It marked me and my family for the rest of my life, because statelessness is hereditary. Now I don't know how to get the documents and help my children", he says for the Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN-CG).

The twin who is several minutes older makes less progress. He eats only mushy food and is in great pain. He doesn't even communicate with his eyes in a stuffy room. Bidaim's second wife Daniela takes care of them day and night. The biological mother abandoned the twins soon after birth.

Link: https://www.portal-udar.net/zivot-sa-invaliditetom-u-romskoj-i-egipcanskoj-zajednici-bol-koju-drugi-ne-vide/

Violent clashes between members of the Roma community and riot police broke out in Greece's second-largest city on Monday after a 16-year-old was shot in a police chase.  Around 1,500 protesters walked along the streets of Thessaloniki, smashing shop windows and throwing Molotov cocktails at the police, who used tear gas and stun grenades as a counter. 

The Roma teenager was currently in critical condition, authorities said, after being shot in the head by a police officer in the early hours of Monday morning. 

According to state TV ERT, the boy filled up his vehicle at a petrol station near the port city of Thessaloniki and drove away without paying. A gas station employee reported the unpaid bill was €20 . 

The officer who allegedly pulled the trigger was arrested and suspended from the force, authorities in Thessaloniki stated. He is scheduled to appear before a prosecutor on Tuesday on charges of attempted manslaughter. 

The authorities stated the teenager tried to ram police officers who were pursuing him on motorbikes to avoid getting arrested. The officer in question then fired two shots to try and stop the attack on the motorcycle he was a passenger on. d stun grenades as a counter.  While the name of the victim was not publicly shared, relatives identified him as being a member of the Roma minority. In 2021, another Roma youth was killed in a police pursuit near the port of Piraeus. 

Link: https://www.dw.com/en/greece-protests-erupt-after-police-shoot-roma-teenager/a-63993761?fbclid=IwAR3zqWrFetJkGhhDkfXkaujwgXAaDyNbD8zTX0oBeZ2epjOKe0QVsr-vcOs