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Protests continue near Athens due to the police wounding of a young Roma

Clashes also broke out on Thursday evening near the Roma settlements near Athens, which is the third night since the police seriously wounded a Roma boy with firearms in northern Greece, and the Government is calling for calm in vain.

The authorities ordered the closure of streets and roads after youths from the neighborhood set fire to tires and garbage containers. Earlier, police raided several neighborhoods in the area and arrested seven people for drug possession, while four people were detained for questioning, authorities said.

Violence erupted after a 16-year-old boy was shot in the head during a police chase in Thessaloniki on Monday because he allegedly left a gas station in a pickup truck without paying a 20-euro bill.

A 34-year-old police officer who allegedly fired a shot during the pursuit has been suspended and is scheduled to appear in court Friday for a hearing on charges of felony attempted manslaughter with possible intent and misdemeanor unlawful use of a weapon.

On Friday, new protests took place in front of the courthouse in Thessaloniki, where the arrested policeman was brought.

 

Link: https://www.danas.rs/svet/treca-noc-nereda-kod-atine-zbog-policijskog-ranjavanja-mladog-roma/

Nikola Taragoš - Czech Republic: We are doing our best to meet the basic needs of the local Roma from Ukraine who are hungry and living in poverty because of the Russian occupation.

Director of Romodrom Nikola Taragoš has given an exclusive interview to ROMEA TV in the Czech Republic. “Our activity is limited to stabilizing basic needs. We are concentrating on a humanitarian program so they can at least eat regularly at certain times of day. Currently, with the onset of winter, we’re taking care of making sure they have a way to heat their homes,” Taragoš told ROMEA TV from Mukachevo, Ukraine, where between 14,000 and 17,000 Romani people are living.

The groceries are purchased by Romodrom right in Ukraine in order to support the local economy. “Naturally that is also connected to logistics, it would be demanding to transport everything from the Czech Republic. We buy clothes and groceries here,” Taragoš said.

According to the director, it is important to mind how aid is disteibuted directly on the spot. “We don’t have so many resources, so we have to be as effective as possible in our operations. What is happening is that as much as 70 % of aid here in Ukraine is lost because of clientelism and corruption,” he explained, adding that for the time being the financing of this assistance is happening just from private sources.

“In the Czech Republic, many Romani people from Ukraine encountered racism and rejection. For that reason, quite a few returned to these conditions. We are doing our best to make sure emigration to the Czech Republic will be limited somewhat through our aid directly in Ukraine,” said Taragoš.

 

Link: https://romea.cz/en/world/nikola-taragos-in-ukraine-were-doing-our-best-to-meet-the-basic-needs-of-local-roma-who-are-hungry-and-living-in-poverty-because-of-the-russian-occupation

Slovak Police investigating incident of "Saint Nicholas" shouting coarse abuse at Romani children and their parents

The celebration of Saint Nicholas' Day (6 December) in Poprad, Slovakia involved an unpleasant incident this year. Rudolf Kubus, an amateur actor and former local council member, dressed up as the character and was captured on video shouting coarse abuse at the Romani children whom he encountered.

Police are already investigating the incident. An audiovisual recording of it is spreading on social media and the Slovak daily Korzár has reported on it.

On this day, people dressed as Saint Nicholas, an Angel and a Devil go around to people’s houses and distribute either a desirable present (candy, toys) or the “devil’s reward” to children in exchange for their reciting a poem or singing a song. Sometimes such distributions are public gatherings, as was organized this year in Poprad.

This year’s Saint Nicholas shouted the following from the stage at a group of celebrating children of Romani origin: “All those in the first row get absolutely nothing from Nicholas. Absolutely nothing. That’s because Nicholas brings presents and gives candy only to those who are nice and who obey, not to those who scream and don’t know how to behave!”

 

Link: https://romea.cz/en/world/slovak-police-investigating-incident-of-saint-nicholas-shouting-coarse-abuse-at-romani-children-and-their-parents

The Ustashas counted the dead Roma on wagons; The exact number of those killed in Jasenovac is not known because no list was kept

In the hands of the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the published book in English "The suffering of the Roma in Jasenovac" by Prof. Dr. Dragoljub Ackovic, member of the International Truth Commission for Jasenovac and Member of Parliament. Ackovic presented the book to Steinmeier at the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the installation of the monument to the Roma and Sinti, victims of the Second World War.

Ackovic is preparing a new book about the Roma who passed through the Jasenovac camp system, for which, he says, historian Dr. Gideon Greif will write a foreword.

- There are no exact figures on how many Roma were killed in Jasenovac, but some estimates show that there were 60,000 to 80,000 - says Atskovic.

- These figures are logical if you know that in the 1931 census one of the questions was "what is your mother tongue" and that only in Drina Banovina 14,700 people declared that they speak "Roma". And it is known that only one in four Roma people said so. Everyone in the NDH was killed. In 1948, there were officially only 408 Roma in Croatia.

 

Link: https://www.novosti.rs/c/drustvo/vesti/1178900/mrtve-rome-ustase-brojale-vagone-zna-tacan-broj-ubijenih-jasenovcu-jer-nije-vodjen-spisak?fbclid=IwAR3Z700_6Adl2vurQvE6DNM9fKXjwMJ9CQgT3lAsa-B1YVUmUkjAuUSkoa0

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