{"id":1728,"date":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/24-01-2014-rroma-convicted-of-geneva-court-to-long-prison-terms\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:20:36","slug":"24-01-2014-rroma-convicted-of-geneva-court-to-long-prison-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/24-01-2014-rroma-convicted-of-geneva-court-to-long-prison-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"24.01.2014 Rroma convicted of Geneva court to long prison terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Le \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNouvelliste (2014) reports on the judgment of the Geneva court against a group of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma who had committed a series of violent robberies against elderly people \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbetween August to October 2011. All participants were sentenced to long prison penalties: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201eUne bande de Roms qui avait commis des vols \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tviolents chez des personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es a \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9e plus s\u00e9v\u00e8rement en appel \u00e0 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGen\u00e8ve. La peine de chacun des quatre protagonistes a \u00e9t\u00e9 major\u00e9e de deux ans \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ten moyenne. <\/em>[\u2026] La bande a agi entre ao\u00fbt et \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toctobre 2011. Une dame alors \u00e2g\u00e9e de 86 ans qui vivait seule dans sa maison de \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLancy (GE) est leur premi\u00e8re victime. Ils s’en sont aussi pris \u00e0 un homme de 76 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tans endormi sur son canap\u00e9. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 frapp\u00e9 et \u00e9touff\u00e9 avec un coussin jusqu’\u00e0 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ten perdre connaissance.\u201d[A group of Rroma which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcommitted violent robberies on elderly people was condemned more severely on \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tappeal in Geneva. The sentence of each of the involved persons was upped on \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taverage by two years. The group acted between August and October 2011. A woman, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t86 years old at the time in Lancy (GE), was their first victim. They also \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tattacked a 76 years old man asleep on his sofa. He was beaten up and suffocated \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith a pillow, and lost conscience.] <\/em>The otherwise \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobjectively written article seems not aware that mentioning of ethnic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmembership is highly problematic, as it suggests connections between matters \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat have nothing to do with each other. Rroma are not more criminals as people \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof other ethnic groups (compare Focas 2014).<\/p>\n