23.07.2014 Paris: Lynch victim awakens from coma

The young Rrom Darius, who fell victim of a lynching in the Parisian suburbs, has awakened from an artificial coma, as several European newspapers reported. Darius can speak and recognize his family. However, how he has experienced the incident himself, and what his views are, is not discussed. He was probably not yet interrogated. The perpetrators of the incident are still unknown. The prosecutor of Bobigny has initiated a proceeding for attempted murder: “The boy was nearly beaten to death in mid-June, in a case of severe vigilante justice of a dozen residents in a deprived district in the north of Paris. According to the police, he was violently abducted from a Roma camp, abused in a basement, and found a few hours later unconscious in a supermarket trolley. He suffered serious head injuries. According to data from legal circles, the victim was known to the police for theft” (Die Welt 2014). The exact circumstances of the incident are still not verified, as are the allegations with regard to the victim. The incident led to massive accusations on French politics, which negatively politicises against Rroma since years and instrumentalises them for election campaigns. Other critics, in return, point out that the lynch case is the result of many years of failed social policy that has created law free zones of misery (compare Le Monde 2014, Le Parisien 2014, Millot 2014).