A video emerged of two politicians of the ultra-conservative PiS party dancing on Roma music. Nota bene, the party is not particularly well inclined towards Roma…
On November 25, 1989, Emil Ščuka and Jan Rusenko spoke to a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Letná in Prague. They also reached most households through television cameras. At the same time, a Roma group unfurled the Roma flag on the Letne plain, and a huge crowd chanted “Long live the Roma”.
Prior to that, Czech Roma dissidents were practically inexistant. The only notable exception was Karel Holomek, a signatory of the Movement for Civil Liberties (HOS), established in 1988. Holomek, expelled from the military college after 1968 and expelled from the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, was detained and interrogated as early as 1981 for “subversion of the republic.”
The now 40-year-old Bogdan Miklič, a Rom from the village of Stranska vas pri Novem mesto in Slovenia, had a promising career as a journalist at RTV Slovenia, and he is also active in his Roma Civil society. Among others, he was the president of the association Gypsies once – Roma today, and still is the legal representative or president of the Roma Association for Dolenjska.
According to the article, he is nowadays most often seen in court for fraud and theft, and in this particular case, for threatening his farmer neighbour.
Whatever he did, this kind of articles does not further the Romani cause.
An interviw with MP Viliam Tankó, who also represents Slovakia in boxing and, who in is own words says that had to live with my mother near a garbage dump. He also explains why he recently left the movement of Matovič who scored high within the Roma population in Slovakia. Since then, he worked as a non-affiliated member of parliament until, together with Michal Šimeček, he announced two weeks ago that he was joining the club of the strongest opposition party, Progresívne Slovensko.
President Petr Pavel visited the Museum of Roma Culture after he had already visited the place of commemoration in Lety u Písek twice. The first time was last year on the occasion of the traditional May memorial gathering to honor the memory of the victims of the local camp. The second time was in April of this year during the ceremonial opening of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Bohemia.
Roma MP Viliam Tankó, a defector from Matovič’s Slovensko movement, joins the Progressive Slovakia parliamentary club. The progressives will thus have 33 deputies in the parliament. The leader of the progressives, Michal Šimečka, presented Tankó on the press as a “long-term sports representative of Slovakia in Olympic boxing”.This prompted discussions as to whether Matovič’s movement is merging with the progressive.
All politics …
Rudolf Huliak was responsible for a recent vulgar incident that outraged a large number of Slovaks. At Wednesday’s (September 25) session of the parliament, the vice-chairman of the National Council, Andrej Danek (SNS), was bothered by the fact that deputy Lucia Plaváková (PS) had stickers on her computer. He was bothered by the fact that these were stickers with an LGBTI motif. Plaváková did not respond to calls to remove them and objected that she did not violate the rules of procedure.
Danko kicked her out of the hall. Huliak subsequently called Plaváková a “bitch who he does not consider a woman” at a press conference.
He also took the opportunity to insult Roma …
A criminal complaint was filed against the member of parliament of the Roma national minority, Veljko Kajtazi, to the State Attorney’s Office in Zagreb for alleged violence against Suzana Krčmar, the president of the Association of Roma in the Republic of Croatia “Kali Sara”, of which he is the honorary president.
Apparenttly, the incident happened two months ago when Kajtazi allegedly physically assaulted Krčmar during an official trip to Beli Manastir, and then in the association’s office in front of several witnesses.
The candidate for the office of the mayor of Kočevje, mag. Robert Tomazin was interviewed in Demokracija. Of course, he speaks about the Roma “Problem” and Roma “Crime”, and of the inaction of the government on the topic.
Same populists views about the situation in Slovenia on Roma.
Bad.
On September 18, 2024, Mayor of Novo mesto Municipality Gregor Macedoni hosted Minister of Internal Affairs Boštjan Poklukar, General Director of Police Senad Jušić and Director of Novo mesto Police Administration Igor Juršič at Rotovža. The central topic of the meeting was the security situation in the municipality of Novi Sad and the related Roma issue.
A protest will be held in the Slovene town of Škocjan on Thursday. The reason for the protest is the inaction of the current government regarding Roma crime.
According to th paper, the Roma “problem” in south-eastern Slovenia has reached its lowest point in the period of independent Slovenia, say representatives of civil initiatives. Despite numerous appeals from the desperate population, the authorities, which can adopt solutions and measures, do not respond. That is why the protest will take place.
Another AfD politician is being investigated for for incitement to hatred for statements he made about migrants, Moslems, and of course also Roma.
Bad.
The Slovak Minister of Education Tomáš Drucker is accusing MP for Progressive Slovakia Ingrid Kosová of making inappropriate statements about Roma at a meeting of the NR SR Committee for Human Rights and National Minorities.
He published a video of the committee meeting on the social network. In it, Kosová first asks whether they compare Hungarian and Ruthenian schools with Roma schools. “It would be nice if there was a Roma national school, like the one in Budapest, for example, where there is a middle Roma class, where those people really have a Roma identity, like me for example, and I went to such a school, why not?” says the deputy in the video . “But here we’re talking about excluded communities, people who mostly don’t even have a basic education, who will tell you they’re from Mars, whatever,” she continued. At this point, one of those present tried to interrupt her, but Kosová continued. “But they are such people that they simply do not have sufficient cognitive ability to be able to evaluate whether it is really in the best interest of the child. We will not lie to ourselves. It’s just the way it is,” she said.
Viliam Tankó (29) won last year’s election to the parliament for the Slovakia movement, also thanks to the fact that he is a Roma. He is not ashamed of his origin. However, he recently left the party and admits that he faces accusations and criticism after leaving Igor Matovič’s movement. He stated that “I left because the relations between us became dull and the cooperation with, for example, older colleagues in the movement was not always ideal.”
The usual current articles in the Slovenian Press. Roma “Issues”, inaction from the central government, and so on.
This is bad.
The mayors of Novi Mesto, Kočevje, Črnomlje and Brežice call on the Government of the Republic of Slovenia to take action. This followed a shooting inside of the Roma community last Sunday in the Roma settlement Šmihel.
After having denied drinking water unti Roma show willingness to integrate and send their children to school, the mayor of the Slovenian town of Ribnica doubles up in another interview. He said: “Council of Roma communities, start working with Roma after thirty years, until now you have let them down and in chaos. You were only a trade union for rights, but not a pillar that would gradually prepare them for integration or socialization.”
A long and bitter article bemoaning the fact that Roma have been allowed to become unemployed, criminals, of not sending children to school, etc. Of course, the fault is that laws have been made specially for them, and that the equailty of all citizen in front of the law is not guaranteed.
The Vice President of the Council of the Roma Community of the RS, Fatmir Bečiri, today visited three Roma settlements in the municipality of Ribnica. The council of the Roma community recently got involved in resolving the dispute between the municipality and the local Roma. The aim of the visit is to prove that it is possible to talk to the Roma and find solutions to their problems, Bečiri told the media during the visit.
The mayor of Ribnica said that Roma would not get drinking water uless they showed they wanted to integrate and send their chlcren to school.
Tomio Okamura’s Czech SPD movement created a series of graphics and posters before the elections, on which the themes of refugees or the Roma minority are presented. One poster, for example, features a bloodied dark-skinned man with the caption that the SPD rejects “imported surgeons”. Another shows supposed Roma children with cigarettes. Both were generated with AI.
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