September 30, 2023

Slovenia and Roma ‘Criminality’

September 30, 2023 Published by: Roma Foundation

Another article about the attack of two brothers by Roma in Slovenia. The two Lopatec brothers in Dobrava near Škocjan were cleaning the a ditch with an excavator and a tractor when they were attacked by Roma. They threatened them with weapons, and then attacked the two policemen who intervened in the intervention, in the end three were slightly injured.

What the background is, is totally unclear, but the numbers of articles focusing on Roma “crime” is scary.

Brata Lopatec sta pomagala sosedu, ko so ju napadli Romi. In: Ne Cenzurirano. 29.09.2023. https://necenzurirano.si/clanek/svet/brata-lopatec-sta-pomagala-sosedu-ko-so-ju-napadli-romi-1086094

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Slovenia and Roma

September 30, 2023 Published by: Roma Foundation

An interview with a catholic deacon on the “Roma Problem” in Slovenia. The deacon is not that clear cut on the roots of the problem and far less on potential solutions. Well, he at least helps some Roma.

Matic Vidic, vojaški diakon: dvema Romoma sem omogočil službo na komunali. Njunemu zgledu je sledilo deset drugih. In: Domovina. 30.09.2023. https://www.domovina.je/matic-vidic-vojaski-diakon-dvema-romoma-sem-omogocil-sluzbo-na-komunali-njunemu-zgledu-je-sledilo-deset-drugih

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Racism in the Czech Republic

September 30, 2023 Published by: Roma Foundation

An interview with the Roma writer Michal Šamko. He published his first Roma-Czech poem at the end of the nineties in the magazine Mladý svět. He returned to it fully only after meeting the Romani writer Milena Hübschmannová, who made him write in Romanes as well. Since then, Michal Šamko (56) has published not only in the journal of Romani studies Romano džaniben, but also in the monthly magazine for world literature PLAV.

He says “They yelled ‘gypsy filth’ at me at school. What’s worse is that they scold my granddaughter in the same way.”

Sad.

„Pokřikovali na mě ve škole cikánská špíno. Horší je, že podobně nadávají mé vnučce,” říká romský spisovatel Michal Šamko. In: Hatefree. 30.09.2023. https://www.hatefree.cz/clanky/pokrikovali-na-me-ve-skole-cikanska-spino-horsi-je-ze-podobne-nadavaji-me-vnucce-rika-romsky-spisovatel-michal-samko