Several newspapers reported on the protest by activists in several European countries, who objected to the presence of a pig farm at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, in the Czech Republic. In the Czech Republic itself, several representatives of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM) were present. They remembered the approximately 1,300 Rroma women and children who were interned between August 1942 and May 1943 in the concentration camp of Lety. Most of them were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and gassed there. In Lety itself, around 330 Rroma died, most of them children. They perished of typhoid fever, hunger, or because of the catastrophic conditions in the camp. Under the communist government, an industrial pig farm was built on the site of the former concentration camp. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, members of the Rroma community and human rights activists have called for the demolition of the pig farm and the establishment of a memorial (compare 20 minutes 2014, L’essentiel 2014, The Times of Israël 2014).

• 20 minutes/AFP (2014) Porcherie sur le site d’un camp de concentration. In: 20 minutes Suisse online vom 14.6.2014. http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/monde/story/12478355
• L’essentiel/AFP (2014) Un camp de concentration devenu porcherie. In: L’essentiel online vom 14.6.2014. http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/news/monde/story/12580696
• The Times of Israël/AFP (2014) Roms : protestation contre une porcherie sur le site d’un camp de concentration. In: The Times of Israël/AFP online vom 14.6.2014. http://fr.timesofisrael.com/roms-protestation-contre-une-porcherie-sur-le-site-dun-camp-de-concentration/

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