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Shortly after two well-publicized incidents in the Czech town of Hradec Králové in which Romani youths were filmed assaulting a non-Romani man, several physical and verbal attacks have been committed there against Romani people as well, but the media has not yet reported about them. One of the Romani youths so attacked has sustained a broken jaw. The next day a neo-Nazi demonstration was allowed to be held in the town to which riot units were deployed. (PHOTO: ROMEA TV)
EXCLUSIVE: Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, is on edge. Romani youth was assaulted and his jaw broken, but police dissuaded him from filing a crime report
14.6.2021 14:11 full story
Daniela Abraham: The antigypsyist violence of my childhood is still happening in Central Europe
7.6.2020 19:06 When I was 10 years old, living in my home country of Slovakia, I was shot in the left side of my chest by a racist neighbour who on the previous day had shouted at me: "I'm gonna shoot you, you dirty Gypsy!" The racist neighbour shot me with a bb gun while I was walking home from school with my little brother. full story
Romani Union of Slovakia: Police brutality against children must be investigated by independent commission, the ministry could be biased
29.4.2020 15:42 full story
Slovak Govt Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities says she belives police brutality incident will be properly investigated, officer has been transferred
29.4.2020 14:55 full story
European Court of Human Rights finds Slovak authorities did not properly investigate police brutality against Romani boy
31.1.2020 11:32 full story
Hate Killer 3000! campaign reminds bystanders in the Czech Republic how to stand up to hate
30.9.2019 13:38 full story
Czech Republic: Several Romani minors hospitalized after adults attack them, shouting racist abuse
8.4.2019 14:31 full storySlovakia: Victims of police raid on Romani settlement on trial for perjury
22.11.2018 8:06 full story
Slovakia: Romani youth in critical condition after brutal racist attack, police say they see no racist motive and make racist remarks themselves
25.7.2018 9:26 Slovak news server Denník N reports that accusations of battery and the co-perpetration of rioting have been made against four men in their early twenties from Žilina, Slovakia. In the early morning hours of Saturday, 21 July, along with other racists, the four men identified are said to have assaulted a group of Romani people. full story
First-graders from Czech school subjected to racist attacks online receive tablets thanks to ROMEA's fundraising drive
2.7.2018 6:15 Children attending the primary school in Teplice that faced a wave of racist online commentaries in the autumn of 2017 were given tablets and other small gifts during the end-of-year celebration that were bought for them by the school with the proceeds from the ROMEA organization's fundraising campaign on their behalf. At last Thursday's celebration, graduating pupils were given a sash to wear and were accompanied by the first-graders in addition to their teachers during the ceremony. full story
Czech court acquits police officer, says use of force against Romani harvester was legal, state to appeal
17.6.2018 11:13The use by police of a collapsible truncheon against a harvester of legally-grown technical hemp from a field in the Česká Lípa district was not criminal, according to a court in Česká Lípa that acquitted the officer on 14 June. The defendant had faced up to five years in prison for abusing his powers.
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Czech police officer who brutally assaulted Romani workers now on trial
17.2.2018 7:26 On 14 February 2018 a 36-year-old police officer went on trial before the District Court in Česká Lípa, accused of abusing the powers of a public official. According to the indictment, he used a collapsible metal truncheon to beat a 41-year-old man who was harvesting legal technical cannabis in September 2015 in Písečná u Dobranova. full story
Czech Police investigating video of father encouraging his daughter to imagine she is beating "Gypsies"
5.8.2017 9:11 News server Aktuálně.cz has spoken with the man who made a video of himself encouraging his daughter to beat a pillow with a baseball bat while imagining she is beatng a "Gypsy" or a Muslim, an action he has told them he does not regret. After news server Romea.cz broke the news of the video going viral on Facebook, police have begun their investigation of the case. full story
Stano Daniel: Slovak Roma have to let themselves be beaten up now, otherwise the fascists will be elected
30.5.2017 8:00 Among Romani people in Slovakia the feeling is prevailing that the biggest threat to their future is the fascist party chaired by Marian Kotleba. It is quite possible to agree with their sentiment. full story
Slovak Police President defends intervention against Roma, says batons were brandished but nobody was struck
29.5.2017 10:19 The President of the Police Corps of the Slovak Republic, Tibor Gašpar, gave a press conference on 25 May about the recent police intervention in Zborov and, contradicting his first statements about the video of the incident, said the only behavior he now assessed as disproportionate was when an officer pushed an older woman who then fell to the ground. The Police President said he believed the officers had had no choice but to behave as they did and that they used their batons just to threaten people, not to actually strike them. full story
Czech Republic: Parents of children who killed flamingo have apologized and will pay damages
29.3.2017 8:51 The parents of the children who killed a flamingo at the zoo in Jihlava are willing to pay damages or work them off. Zoo director Eliška Kubíková informed the public of the developments in an interview with news server Lidovky.cz. full story
Czech Republic: Non-Romani men fighting "about a girl" misreported by media as neo-Nazi brawl with Roma
17.2.2017 7:53 Online news server udalosti112.cz broadcast reporting including video footage on 12 February claiming that a street battle had erupted in the town of Litvínov, Czech Republic between neo-Nazis and Romani people, writing about a "battle of a group of skinheads with local Roma" that "employed local and state police and emergency medical responders". News server Romea.cz was then contacted by an eyewitness to the incident who said it was not a clash between right-wing extremists and Romani people, but an ordinary "pub brawl" among non-Romani locals involving a dispute "about a girl". full story
Czech Republic: Extremists sentenced to almost 7 years in prison for arson attack
26.6.2016 16:18 Tomáš Kopecký and Michal Poláček, the men responsible for an arson attack on a residential hotel occupied by Romani people in the Czech town of Aš, will serve six years and nine months in prison. The High Court in Prague sentenced them on 22 June for racially-motivated attempted murder and reckless endangerment. full story
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