07.02.2014 Arrest of two Rroma girls in Rapperswil-Jona reinforces racial prejudice

The arrest of two Rroma girls between the age of ten and seventeen in Rapperswil-Jona is taken as an opportunity by several Swiss newspapers to confirm racial prejudice. The two girls started running when sighting a patrol car, which drew the attention of the police officers on them. According to the journalists, the girls had previously stolen screw-drivers from a basement with which they intended to perform further thefts. The reference to the ethnicity of the girls is totally unnecessary as it reinforces racial prejudice against the members of the minority. Rroma are not more criminal than the representatives of other ethnic groups. To ascribe them cultural-related crimes, lacks any respect and sanity (Südostschweiz 2014, Zürcher Oberländer 2014).