Daily Archives: June 28, 2022

Beating in Romania

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Bruises on the face, swollen eye, scared and crying children. A video is being spread on social networks among Roma in Romania. A 37-year-old Rom from Piatra Neamt north of Bucharest was beaten by police. The reason was that he refused to provide an ID when the taxi in which he was driving as a passenger was stopped. Information from the Romanian newspaper Libertatea was published by the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC).

Commemoration

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A commemoration to the victims of a massacre of  80 years ago took place in Lutowiska in Bieszczady. On June 22, 1942, the Germans murdered 650 people there, and soon another 150 thereafter. The victims were Jews and about thirty Roma. The commemoration was attended, among others, by the Ambassador of Israel in Poland, Yacov Livne and Adam Bartosz – Vice President of the Association of Polish Roma.

Hungary and Lungo Drom

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Roma politicians have initiated an investigation against the Lungo Drom association with the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Prosecutor. According to them, the activities of Lungo Drom’s President Flórián Farkas seriously endanger the legal operation of the association and the achievement of the goals set in the articles of association. As of 2017, Lungo Drom did not submit financial statements, and the last 2016 report available on the court’s website did not arrive until the fall of 2021.

Brussels and Beggars

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The city of Brussels holds to its regulation on beggars, in spite of the suspension ordered by a higher instance.

Bad.

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