{"id":1127,"date":"2014-11-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/07-11-2014-greece-perpetrators-of-racist-attacks-on-rroma-convicted\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:41:59","slug":"07-11-2014-greece-perpetrators-of-racist-attacks-on-rroma-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/07-11-2014-greece-perpetrators-of-racist-attacks-on-rroma-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"07.11.2014 Greece: perpetrators of racist attacks on Rroma convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Amnesty International  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2014) reports about the conviction of three men who, for racist reasons, \u00a0brutally attacked a Rromni and her  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnephew in Greece. The men were sentenced to prison terms of eighth months each.  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmnesty International offered free legal assistance to the victims. Since the economic  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcrisis and euro crisis right-wing extremist groups like the \u201cChrysi Avgi\u201d party (Golden Dawn) have enjoyed increasing  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpopularity: <em>\u201c\u201cThese convictions are only  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe first step to justice. Equally important is that the court now recognises  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe racist motive behind this crime,\u201d said Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Amnesty  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInternational\u2019s expert on Greece, who observed the trial. Paraskevi Kokoni and  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ther nephew were punched, kicked and beaten with logs by a group of local men  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhile they were out shopping in the town of Etoliko, western Greece. Paraskevi  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttold Amnesty International that she was singled out as a relative of a local  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoma leader. The attack took place amid a series of vicious racist raids on  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoma families by groups chanting anti-Roma slogans and threats in the same town  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbetween August 2012 and January 2013. In a separate case last month, those  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tattacks were attributed to members and supporters of Golden Dawn in Etoliko.\u201d<\/em>  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma are largely organised egalitarian. So-called \u201cRroma leaders\u201d, as they are  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmentioned in this article, have mainly representative character. In Greece, there  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tare an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 Rroma, according to assessments of the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma Foundation. Many of them have education, work, and have their own homes.  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma belong to all social classes, but are indeed particularly affected by  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoverty and discrimination.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amnesty International (2014) Greece:  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConvictions following racist attack against Roma \u2018first step to justice\u2019. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Amnesty International online<\/em> vom  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4.11.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/news\/greece-convictions-following-racist-attack-against-roma-first-step-justice-2014-11-04\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/news\/greece-convictions-following-racist-attack-against-roma-first-step-justice-2014-11-04<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International (2014) reports about the conviction of three men who, for racist reasons, \u00a0brutally attacked a Rromni and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[623,14,15],"tags":[92,35,63,24,23,133],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-rroma","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13158,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}