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Slovenia: Attack

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Slovenia: Attack

In the settlement Žabjak near Novo mesto, Roma attacked and stoned utility workers yesterday while performing a mandatory public service – collecting waste, announced the director of Komunala Novo mesto Bojan Kekec.

Not one of those articles asks the question as to why these attacks occur. Seems that this is what they consider as “normal” among Roma.

Bad.

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Slovenia: Attack

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Slovenia: Attack

In early July, three Roma brutally beat-up a 72-year-old farmer Anton Čemažar in a field on the outskirts of Ljubljana. This caused a great deal of controversy. Now, the farmer and his family have suffered their first disappointment: the Ljubljana District Court has rejected a request to investigate a fourth person involved, who led the attackers to Čemažar’s field and drove them away after the violent act, in a vehicle without license plates. The investigating judge and the pre-trial panel believe that the driver did not know what was really happening, but was merely taking the perpetrators fishing, so there is no reasonable suspicion of his complicity.

This is the law, but here the result is that in Slovenia, they say that Roma are not subject to it. Bad.

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Slovenia: Attack

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Slovenia: Attack

Another one of those articles, where the government is accused of not doing anything against Roma criminals. In this case, this followed another attack – apparently by Roma – in the Šentjernej area. The government is accused of not maintaining order, not arresting the perpetrators, etc.

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Moldova nad Bodvou

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Moldova nad Bodvou

This is a never-ending story. 12 years ago, Roma were beaten up by the police in Moldova nad Bodvou. The Roma sued and found themselves accused of false testimony and condemned. They appealed and finally, the European Court of Human Rights condemned Slovakia in 2020.

They case against the police was reopened but assigned to the very same prosecutor who condemned the Roma. Now, finally, a new investigator has been assigned to the case.

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Slovenia and Roma

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Slovenia and Roma

The Slovene government called a press conference, which was attended by the Minister of Labor, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Luka Mesec, Minister of Education and Training Vinko Logaj, State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior Helga Dobrin, and State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice Andreja Kokalj following attacks by Roma on Andrej Breček from Mihovice near Šentjernej, a mayor with controversial views on Roma, and on 70-year-old Anton Čemažar in Ljubljana.

They presented how individual departments are addressing the challenges related to the Roma community. They rejected accusations that the government is not taking any action during this mandate. They emphasized that cooperation between departments has actually strengthened in the last year and that for the first time, Roma issues are being addressed comprehensively and systematically.

However, they agree that the situation we are witnessing is the result of decades of neglect of these challenges by the state and local communities.

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Ljubljana Attack

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Ljubljana Attack

Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković condemned the attack on a 70-year-old man that occurred last week in the Kleče area of Ljubljana. Janković praised the work of the police, who have already taken the four alleged perpetrators into custody, and they were also arrested in cooperation with the Roma community. He stressed that the perpetrators must be punished appropriately. He announced that he would visit the Roma settlement at the end of August, where he would meet and talk to the locals. When asked about the announced village guards, Janković replied that the court is the only place to achieve justice. He called on the residents to be tolerant, because, according to him, the police have done their job, and now the prosecutor’s office and the court have to do their job.

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Security in Slovenia

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Security in Slovenia

According to the acting director general of the police Petrič, statistics really show that southeast Slovenia is more burdened by the number of crimes per 1,000 inhabitants than other parts of the country. The security situation in the municipality of Šentjernej is “somewhat complicated”, so the police will increase their presence there, said Interior Minister Boštjan Poklukar after today’s meeting with Šentjernej Mayor Jože Simončič, which was also attended by the first police chief Damjan Petrič. The municipality is experiencing an increased number of attacks on citizens.

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Slovenia: Attack?

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Slovenia: Attack?

SDS MP Anja Bah Žibert shared a post on Facebook in which she stated that a Roma attack on a 72-year-old man allegedly took place in Ljubljana. She also attached a photo showing the alleged victim with a severely swollen eye, and according to the MP, he allegedly suffered a fractured cheekbone and other injuries.

There are several articles – but no confirmation so far as to whether it was Roma or why the man was attacked.

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And more Bad News

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And more Bad News

One of the residents of the Roma settlement of Goriča Vas physically attacked a social worker who was allegedly checking in the Roma settlement what kind of car the Roma family involved in an incident was using. The newspaper asks the mother, the social worker, and the Police. Meanwhile, the mayor of Ribnica has also spoken out again, urging the government once again: “Take action before it’s really too late.” He isa the one who advocates cutting water and other services to Roma who don’t “behave”…

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Slovenia: Another Attack

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Slovenia: Another Attack

Another report of a man beaten up by Roma in Slovenia. The attack took place a month ago, on June 10, but according to the victim, he initially did not want to speak publicly about it. After much thought, he gathered his courage, as he just wants those responsible in Ljubljana, both the government and other bodies and institutions, to realize that the Roma problem in SE Slovenia is serious and that it is really high time something was done for the better.

This is bad.

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Slovenia: Trial

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Slovenia: Trial

The trial of Arsen and Leonard Novak began at the Kočevje District Court on Monday. They are accused of attacking Ribnica mayor Samo Pogorelc on June 8 with a minor, against whom separate proceedings are being conducted, closed to the public. Arsen Novak is also accused of attacking the mayor’s then-partner, Delo reports.

The affair made the headlines in Slovenia. What this omits to say, the attack occurred after the mayor threatened to cut Roma access to municipal services unless they “behaved”…

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Roma Attack

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Roma Attack

Two articles about the attack by a Roma against an official from the municipality of Ribnica, Slovenia. The official was slightly wounded. Tempers run high there, and the mayor has been cutting services to Roma settlements. This sounds like a self-made problem…

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Police Violence

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Police Violence

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and Amnesty International Slovakia demand an independent investigation into information about alleged police violence against residents of the Roma community in the village of Veľká Ida in Slovakia.

As stated in the statement of the organizations, the investigation of police violence against Roma in Slovakia has been ineffective in the past and has repeatedly failed to lead to justice. According to them, Roma communities in Slovakia continue to face police violence and raids.

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Slovenia: Attack

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Slovenia: Attack

Unfortunately, yet another story in the Slovenian press about Roma attacking non-Roma Slovenes, this time in Šentjernej. The victim is Andrej Brečko. A little over a week ago, he participated in a parliamentary commission where they discussed the Roma “issue”, and now the Roma are apparently taking revenge on him and intimidating him. He described on the social network Facebook what exactly happened on the night from Thursday to Friday. “It’s been exactly a week since the last Roma vandal attack on our property and car, and tonight Roma vandals broke a window on the greenhouse again”. HE was also physically aggressed on a second occasion.

Well, we can imagine what they discussed at this session, and why Roma might be offended.

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Bulgaria: Outrage

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Bulgaria: Outrage

The recent attack by a Roma youngster resulted in outrage. This editorial basically says that Roma are being treaded to kindly. The journalists Anton Stefanov says “There is no age to be a freak – how long will being a minor protect you?!”

“It is precisely because of the powerlessness of the state that there should be no mercy after this case! Because tomorrow there will be fists for other children too”

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Bulgaria: Beating

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Bulgaria: Beating

Two articles in the Bulgarian press about the attack by a 13-year-old Roma boy of another non-Roma Bulgarian. Apparently the young Roma boy was not unknown to the educational system, having been already flagged as violent.

What is bad is that both articles flag this are Roma vs. Bulgarians (Roma there are in the region before the Bulgarians arrived), and pander to stereotypes. This is bad and dangerous.

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Novo Mesto – Attack

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Novo Mesto – Attack

A witness in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, said that a man the Roma settlement of Žabjak attacked a citizen with a knife, while he was performing community service at the Novo mesto Komunala.

Whatever the reason, this is bad.

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Bratislava and Neo Nazis

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Bratislava and Neo Nazis

On Tuesday (20.05.), the regional criminal police intervened in several places in Bratislava as part of the case of a masked neo-Nazi group that was planning to attack people in the capital. According to noviny.sk, the police detained more than 20 people. Among them were juveniles. However, their number may not be final.

This group had been targeting migrants and Roma in the capital for months.

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Arson in Serbia

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Arson in Serbia

The police did not protect a family who was attacked by a mob on May 3rd in the Serbian village of Travnik, shouting racist insults. The police then trivialised the event.

Shame.

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