Daily Archives: December 21, 2016

Berlin, the Subway, and Rroma

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The person who kicked a young woman down the stairs in Berlin has been identified. He is unfortunately a Rrom from Bulgaria. He is definitively a criminal, and deserves a penalty, but it seems that the papers are more concerned about his ethnicity rather than the facts.
BAD.

– PICTURED: Man wanted for booting woman down underground train station stairs. In: Daily Stars. 15.12.2016. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/570651/man-kicking-woman-down-stairs-wanted-berlin-germany-metro-train-station

Slovakia: Evictions

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An eviction notice was served to the mostly Rroma population of the street to the hospital in Bánovce nad. No alternative lodgings has been provided, meaning the municipality actually violates UN Conventions.
This is bad …

– Rómov chce mesto vysťahovať. Chráni ich však právnik a OSN. In: Aktualne.sk. 18.12.2016. http://aktualne.atlas.sk/slovensko/regiony/banovskych-romov-chce-mesto-vystahovat-podla-pravnika-porusuje-dohovor-osn.html

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