{"id":1504,"date":"2014-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/13-06-2014-die-welt-defames-rroma-through-connotation-with-criminal-clans\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:05:43","slug":"13-06-2014-die-welt-defames-rroma-through-connotation-with-criminal-clans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/13-06-2014-die-welt-defames-rroma-through-connotation-with-criminal-clans\/","title":{"rendered":"13.06.2014 Die Welt defames Rroma through connotation with criminal clans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Die Welt (2014) reports on a trial against 45 members of a Polish Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclan, who is said to have been robbing seniors for money and jewellery by \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tapplying the so-called \u201cgrandson trick\u201d: \u201cSince \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovember 2012, the Hamburg prosecutor\u2019s office and the department of organized crime \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(OC) in the state criminal investigations department conducted investigations \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagainst the Polish perpetrators, based on suspicion of gang based commercial \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfraud. After an extensive criminal investigation, OC investigators closed on \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe family gang, which is regarded as the inventor of the so-called grandson \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttrick. […] For the past 15 years, the police is aware of the deceptive \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpractices of the Polish Roma clan. That the trick is very successful, is shown \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby numerous YouTube videos, where the family members brag about their wealth.\u201d <\/em>The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treference to the ethnicity is completely unnecessary. Through the correlation \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the facts described with a criminal, Polish Rroma clan, Die Welt <\/em>suggests a clear connection between the offenses described \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand the ethnicity. This connotation is completely unnecessary. It reinforces \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tracist ideas and resentment against the minority. In addition, the newspaper \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnourishes stereotypes of organized, criminal clans among the Rroma. However, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthis idea is wrong. The majority of Rroma are living respectable and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinconspicuous lives. Rroma are not organized hierarchically, as repeatedly suggested \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby the newspapers. This idea is the result of the projection of the feudal, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmedieval order onto the Rroma. The S\u00e4chsische \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZeitung <\/em>and the Luxembourgian Tageblatt<\/em> argue in the same problematic way (compare Fl\u00fcckiger 2014 I\/II).<\/p>\n