The public call was open from April 1 to November 1, 2018. Those children who were born after the famous public call that none of the citizens - phantoms have heard, seen, do not have the right to be registered in the special birth register.

NGOs managed to find only 659 people born in Macedonia without a personal identification number. Out of the 659 registered, 184 people applied for enrollment in 2020. Out of them, only for 44 persons the Office made a decision for issuing a certificate from the special registry book. According to the Office, most of the persons who filled in the questionnaire and declared their ethnicity were Roma - 428, Albanians - 88, Turks - 20, Bosniaks - 3, Serbs - 2 and one person from the Vlach ethnic community,said the Deputy Ombudsman, Vaska Bajramovska-Mustafa. She demanded that the Law on Unregistered Persons in the Birth Registry, which for incomprehensible reasons has a limited duration, and the possibility expires in one month, to continue to apply for at least another year.

Two years ago, in the settlement which is located near the outskirts of the city was in the focus of the public because of the now deceased Mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandikj decided to settle Roma in the converted business buildings from the barracks of the former Plinska settlement. Two years have passed, and the families which found their home here aren’t even mentioned anymore. When the Roma moved in, they say that some of the natives protested. They were worried at the beginning, but still, they know that they shouldn’t judge people based on their nationality and religion and that is why the newly moved in Roma neighbors are well accepted. And the remainder of the residents found out that they had unnecessary worries.

“This is a small settlement, we all know each other. In the buildings there are 20 Roma families and they are our neighbors just like the others. We say hello on daily basis, and our nephews play together with their children” said grandma Milanka. “We’re together and we know each other, we drink coffee together. All in all, we function normally” said Milanka.

Link: https://www.vecernji.hr/zagreb/zivot-doseljenika-u-novom-petrusevcu-uvjeti-nam-nisu-bajni-ali-sa-susjedima-svaki-dan-pijemo-kavu-1495717