{"id":29847,"date":"2025-09-18T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=29847"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:58:37","slug":"greece-crime-and-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/greece-crime-and-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece, Crime, and Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;70%-75% of crime comes from the Roma,&#8221; he said in a recent interview (Action 24, July 24, 2025) the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis. \u201cI am not saying this for racist or prejudice reasons. Quite the opposite, I love their children and these people, but the profession they do must be changed: thefts, burglaries, frauds, electricity thefts, etc.,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent months, the Hellenic Police have been intensifying unannounced operations in camps throughout the country. Since the beginning of September, at least seven such operations have been carried out in Attica, Thessaloniki, Trikala, Karditsa and Larissa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roma don\u2019t deny that criminality is present in their communities, but \u00a0say that causes are deeper: they are linked to the long-standing marginalization of the Roma in Greece, their frequent exclusion from access to housing and work, but also to the poor design of any policies that are implemented. \u201cIt is not a question of race or ethnicity, but the result of social and economic conditions that concern the whole of society,\u201d emphasizes George Nikolaou.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u03a1\u03bf\u03bc\u03ac \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03b3\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1 \u2013 \u03bc\u03cd\u03b8\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ae \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1. In: Ta Nea. 16.09.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanea.gr\/print\/2025\/09\/16\/greece\/roma-kai-egklimatikotita-mythos-i-pragmatikotita\/\">https:\/\/www.tanea.gr\/print\/2025\/09\/16\/greece\/roma-kai-egklimatikotita-mythos-i-pragmatikotita\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u03a1\u03bf\u03bc\u03ac: \u03a4\u03b1 \u03b1\u03af\u03c4\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b2\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b2\u03b1\u03b8\u03cd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1. In: Ta Nea. 16.09.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanea.gr\/print\/2025\/09\/16\/greece\/ta-aitia-tis-paravatikotitas-einai-vathytera\/\">https:\/\/www.tanea.gr\/print\/2025\/09\/16\/greece\/ta-aitia-tis-paravatikotitas-einai-vathytera\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;70%-75% of crime comes from the Roma,&#8221; he said in a recent interview (Action 24, July 24, 2025) the Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29848,"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":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/26567041.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[623,15],"tags":[686,684,91,63],"class_list":["post-29847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","category-news-western-europe","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/26567041.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29849,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions\/29849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}