Daily Archives: March 23, 2022

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Ukraine and Roma

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Research from Romea in the Czech Republic confirmed by local Roma NGOs and our own research on the web, show that photographs from Lviv, Ukraine, on which Roma are strapped to columns and sticky on their faces, are which are spreading on social networks have a somewhat different background. The photos allege that they are refugees from Kiev who were attacked without delay by local Ukrainians immediately upon arrival. However, as the Romea.cz news server found out, the context of the photos is somewhat different. This is allegedly a group of pickpockets who were arrested in this unacceptable way while stealing. Russian propaganda uses photographs disseminated in a different context to confirm the presence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

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Czechia and Roma refugees

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Another article with more details about the roughly 500 Roma refugees from the Ukraine who made it to the Czech Republic.

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Bulgaria and Roma

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Bad publicity… The Plovdiv Police said that two Roma families were on trial. Then they quarrelled with each other outside. More than 20 people gathered and started shouting, and then a fight. One of the men pulled out a weapon and fired into the air. No one was injured.

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Undocumented

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Many Roma in the Ukraine have no official papers, not even a birth certificate. This is clearly more prevalent in the countryside and in the Southwestern part of the country, although the number of Roma without papers is difficult to assess. Now, as refugees from the War, they are doubly discriminated.

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The Scandal Pictures

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The picture of Roma bound to posts made it though the social media, amplified by Russia, alleging this was outright discrimination. As usual, reality is more circumstantiated, as these Roma were caught stealing (see also below the article in Romea). Nevertheless, self-justice, and especially of this kind is not acceptable.

This Ukrainian article strongly condemn this act, and effectively says this plays in the hand of the Russians in their attempt to portray all Ukrainians as Nazis.

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