{"id":1276,"date":"2014-11-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/28-11-2014-stereotypes-rroma-gang-harasses-romanian-member-of-parliament\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:00:51","slug":"28-11-2014-stereotypes-rroma-gang-harasses-romanian-member-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/28-11-2014-stereotypes-rroma-gang-harasses-romanian-member-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"28.11.2014 Stereotypes: Rroma gang harasses Romanian Member of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The British tabloid \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnewspaper \u201cDaily Mail\u201d reports on a group of young Rroma, who allegedly harassed \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand threatened a Romanian Member of Parliament. Because the politicians paid \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\this loan to late, the bank sold a portion of his property to pay off the debt, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe newspaper states. Young \u201cRroma millionaires\u201d are said to have moved into \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe sold part and henceforth have started to massively harass the politician. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThornhill\u2019s (2014) article in the Daily Mail builds part of a series of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdisparaging articles about Rroma, which the British tabloid published in recent \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmonths and years. The newspaper reported regularly in a very negative way about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma migrants in the UK, and portrayed them as a poor, asocial and often \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcriminal minority, who would intentionally exploit the British welfare system. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the case of the Romanian parliamentarian, the newspaper spreads absurd notions \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof uncivilized and ruthless \u201cRroma millionaires\u201d: \u201cA Romanian MP was stunned after a family of millionaire gypsies moved \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinto his mansion after he was late paying back a loan secured on a 20 percent \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tshare in his property, and the bank sold it off to the gypsies to recover the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdebt. It meant that the gypsies who snapped up the 20 percent stake in the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tproperty in the north-eastern Romanian city of Iasi moved into part of it \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tovernight, and since then have allegedly made MP Ionel Agrigoroaei’s life hell. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[\u2026] And if the 53-year-old MP was unhappy about seeing the gypsies move into a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twing of his property, he was even more unhappy when they started a catalogue of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhat he describes as terror and intimidation in a bid to get him to move out so \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthey could occupy the rest of the building.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Rroma are not more criminal \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthan other ethnic groups. In addition, the mentioning of ethnicity in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconnection with the events described by Thornhill, is irresponsible. It only fuels \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tderogatory prejudices against the Rroma. Most Rroma are integrated and go to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twork.<\/p>\n