Roughly 150 supporters of the right-wing extremist Workers‘ Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti – DSSS) and the Workers‘ Youth (Dělnická mládeže – DM) gathered on 1 May to demonstrate in Prague. The right-wing radicals threw cobblestones and glass or plastic bottles at counter-demonstrators objecting to their neo-Nazism who marched past just after 15:00 near Na můstku street. One of the cobblestones struck a Romani activist from the Hate is No Solution initiative, Jozef Miker. The aggressive neo-Nazis also injured three police officers. One neo-Nazi was arrested for assaulting an officer.
The ultra-right supporters gathered at 14:00 at the bottom of Wenceslas Square, where several people gave speeches. DSSS chair Tomáš Vandas opened the demonstration by criticizing Czech PM Petr Nečas (Civic Democrats – ODS) for preserving his existing cabinet through the support of the Public Affairs (VV) MPs who want to see Deputy Prime Minister Karolína Peake (VV) stay in office. Vandas said the PM would do better to call early elections. He then went on to give his usual remarks, attacking Romani people and also news server Romea.cz. During its on-line reporting of the demonstration in real time, news server iDNES.cz said the DSSS leader made the following deceptive claims: „Tomáš Vandas is criticizing police reform, wiretapping, and says he is bothered by government support for news server Romea.cz.“ (mehr…)
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Czech Republic: Romani people attacked and ostracized despite voicing condemnation of recent assault
The recent commission of a violent crime which the Czech media and the victim allege was committed by Romani people has prompted a wave of ostracism among the non-Romani residents of the town of Břeclav. The IQ Roma servis civic association, which works with Romani people in Břeclav, is now speaking up after conducting interviews with many of their adult and child clients, bringing forward the authentic feelings, opinions and testimonies of members of the Romani community about this situation.
Young Romani people in Břeclav are currently being subjected to behavior which they perceive as an assault on their basic human rights, be it when they are online, out in public, or in the schools. Some of them, especially the youngest of them, do not understand the majority society’s behavior and are afraid. The pedagogical staff of IQ Roma servis, who work daily with these youth at a recreational club and during individual instruction, have noted an impact on these children’s basic self-respect and sense of belonging to Czech society as well as their increased anxiety. (mehr…)
The ultra-right extremist Workers‘ Youth (Dělnická mládež – DM) is convening a protest this Sunday in Břeclav to support a 15-year-old boy who was brutally beaten by three allegedly Romani men over the weekend there. The boy has been hospitalized and is in critical condition. Up to 1 000 people are expected to attend the event, which will culminate in a march through the center of town. Břeclav municipality spokesperson Eliška Windová informed the Czech Press Agency of the upcoming march today.
The march is announced as beginning at 9:00 AM CET and lasting until 20:00 on Sunday. It will start at the main train station in Břeclav. „The announcers met the legal requirements for the event to take place. For the time being there is no reason to ban it,“ the town spokesperson said.
The DM is an offshoot of the ultra-right radical Workers‘ Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti – DSSS). Sunday’s march was originally planned under completely different circumstances – friends of the beaten boy wanted to hold a „March for Little Peter and Our Security“ and announced the event on Facebook. Almost 1 000 people promised to attend it. During the ensuing online discussion, the issue of who should take up organizing the demonstration was raised. The DM then officially announced to the town hall that it was convening the protest.
The DSSS has already condemned the attack on the boy. „Given the fact that a large number of citizens are turning to us with requests for help about this case, the Workers‘ Party is prepared to support all events held in support of the beaten boy,“ DSSS Vice-Chair Jiří Štěpánek told the Czech Press Agency today. Numerous Romani organizations have also condemned the incident.
Petra Vedrová, a spokesperson for the South Moravian Police, told the Czech Press Agency today that police are following the circumstances around the protest and will take appropriate security measures on Sunday. Yesterday Mayor of Břeclav Oldřich Ryšavý (Czech Social Democrats – ČSSD) warned against the event turning into an anti-Romani demonstration. He also called the assailants „human beasts“ who must be apprehended.
The boy was assaulted by three men on Sunday evening. He testified that they were dark-skinned. One reportedly asked him for a cigarette. When the boy said he didn‘t have one, the men beat him brutally. The boy telephoned his mother, who took him to the hospital, where he was operated on immediately. Doctors removed one of his kidneys and said his liver is also damaged. His mother told the media that the assailants were not interested in money, because they did not rob her son. Allegedly they just wanted to take their aggression out on him. The perpetrators face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Source: Romea.cz
Date: 18.04.2012
Fremd, frei, fahrend, faul – seit Jahrhunderten halten sich Stereotype über Menschen, die als „Zigeuner“ diskriminiert und zur Nazi-Zeit ermordet wurden. Auch danach wurden sie ausgegrenzt.
„Ein Roma-Dorf zieht nach Berlin“ titelte die BZ am 2. April 2012, „Roma-Kinder überfordern Berlins Lehrer“ heißt es in der Morgenpost am 3. April – nur zwei Beispiele der jüngsten Vergangenheit aus deutschen Zeitungen. Gepaart werden solche Schlagzeilen oft auch noch mit Berichten über Müllberge, aggressives Betteln oder angebliches Erschleichen von Sozialleistungen in Deutschland. Das ohnehin verzerrte Bild einer Bevölkerungsgruppe droht sich auf diese Weise in der Gesellschaft noch zu verfestigen, einer Minderheit, die in Europa jahrhundertelang verunglimpft wurde. Auch heutzutage noch sind 44 Prozent der Bevölkerung in Deutschland überzeugt, dass Sinti und Roma zu Kriminalität neigen, das ergaben Studien des Konfliktforschers Prof. Wilhelm Heitmeyer. 4 von 10 Befragten sagten, sie hätten Probleme, wenn sich Sinti und Roma in ihrer Umgebung aufhielten. Heitmeyer und andere Forscher gehen davon aus, dass die Befragten gar keine Mitglieder der Bevölkerungsgruppe kennen, gegen die sich ihre Feindseligkeit richtet.
Das ist typisch für sogenannten Antiziganismus. Diese Haltung beruht nicht auf Erfahrungen sondern auf Projektionen der Mehrheitsgesellschaft, davon ist auch der Berliner Politologe Markus End überzeugt: „Es ist möglich, antiziganistisch eingestellt zu sein, ohne dass man jemals irgendwie konkreten Kontakt gehabt hat zu Menschen, die man als ‚Zigeuner‘ wahrnimmt“. Dies speise sich aus einer jahrhundertelangen Überlieferung von Klischees, wie Heimatlosigkeit, Faulheit oder Kriminalität, die auch in den Medien das Bild von Sinti und Roma prägen, ebenso wie vieler anderer Gruppen, gegen die sich Antiziganismus richte. (mehr…)
Detectives in Vysočina region are investigating a violent attack on a Romani family that may have been racially motivated. Petr Šváb of the Jihlava Police made the announcement earlier this week at a conference on extremism organized by the Vysočina Regional Authority. The incident occurred last year. The regional edition of Deník is reporting that Šváb did not want to reveal more details.
„I don‘t want to talk about it yet, because it is a complicated case and we have not managed to prove racial motivation for the time being,“ Šváb told the Jihlava edition of Deník. He mentioned the case during a discussion with conference attendees who wanted to know whether extremists have been committing violence in the region.
The aim of the conference, which was supported by the Czech Education Ministry and the European Union, was to draw attention to extremism, which could become increasingly important given the current social situation in the region. Organizers also wanted to present the issue comprehensively with respect to the theoretical side and to familiarize participants with current trends and developments in extremism in the Czech Republic. (mehr…)
Der Kalender wollte es so, dass das offizielle Gedenken an die Mordserie an Zuwanderern durch Neonazis in Deutschland mit dem 3. Jahrestag eines ebenfalls rassistisch motivierten Doppelmordes an Roma in Ungarn zusammenfällt.
Am 23. Februar 2009 wurden Róbert Csorba und sein fünfjähriger Sohn Robika bei der Flucht aus ihrem brennenden Haus in Tatárszentgyörgy erschossen. Kurz zuvor marschierte die neofaschistische „Magyar Gárda“ aus dem Umfeld der seit 2010 im Parlament vertretenen Partei Jobbik durch diesen und andere Orte, um auf die „Zigeunerkriminalität“ aufmerksam zu machen und die Belange der „Magyaren“ zu schützen. Die Mordserie an ungarischen Roma in den Jahren 2008/09 forderte sechst Tote und rund ein Dutzend Verletzte, vier Tatverdächtigen, die im August 2009 verhaftet werden konnten, wird seit März letzten Jahres der Prozess gemacht.
In einigen Orten haben mittlerweile Jobbik-Bürgermeister das Sagen und nutzen vom Staat gesetzlich ermöglichte kommunale Beschäftigungsprogramme zum amtlichen Ausleben ihres offenen Rassismus`.
Das Staatssekretariat für soziale Integration, geleitet von Zoltán Balog, legte am Vorabend des Jahrestages einen Kranz am Tatort nieder und ließ erklären, dass man gegen den Hass, egal von welcher Seite, und seine Folgen vorgehen muss. Die Opfer seien zu schützen, egal welcher ethnischen Gruppe sie angehören, genauso wie die Täter nach Recht und Gesetz zu verurteilen sind.
Quelle: Pester Lloyd
Stand: 23.02.2012
20 years ago a group of Serb paramilitaries destroyed a Roma village in Eastern Bosnia, killing all the residents. A child survived and, today, he is asking for his people justice before the Belgrade’s War Crimes Prosecutor
What happened in Skočić on July 12th, 1992?
We had just come back home. My father worked as a bricklayer and had decided to take us all to Serbia for some days, because the situation in Bosnia was very tense. After a while things appeared to be improving, and everyone was saying that there would be no war. So we returned to Skočić, near Zvornik, where we lived. On July 12th, at approximately 9 in the evening, two trucks full of soldiers came into the village.
Was it the Yugoslav army?
No, they were paramilitaries. It was the band of Sima Bogdanović, Sima “the Chetnik“.
Did they come from Bosnia or Serbia?
From Serbia. (mehr…)
Two masked, unidentified men threw Molotov cocktails at a residential hotel in the Czech town of Aš, home to two Romani families as well as non-Romani residents. One bottle struck a window and another struck the main door. Residents put the fire out themselves. Police are investigating the case as one of racially motivated reckless endangerment. No one was physically injured. Police have summoned reinforcements to Aš from Cheb to monitor the situation for the next few days.
The attack has been condemned by Czech Deputy Prime Minister Karolína Peake (Public Affairs – VV). Mayor of Aš Dalibor Blažek said the residential hotel houses two Romani families and non-Romani workers. For the time being it is not clear how many people were put at risk.
„The perpetrators were two men who were thin and about 180 cm tall. Police are asking any witnesses of this incident to call 158,“ police spokesperson Pavel Valenta said in a public statement. The attack took place at 2:30 AM in Nádražní street. The assailants then fled in the direction of Palackého street.
The Molotov cocktails damaged the plaster and set fire to the window of an apartment where people were sleeping. The main door to the building also caught fire, but residents put both fires out. „The fire didn‘t get in because the windows are double-paned and the bottle made it through the first pane only,“ Valenta told news server iDNES.cz.
The Czech Press Agency has reported that firefighters intervened at the scene. The precise number of Molotov cocktails used in the attack was not given by the police spokesperson. (mehr…)
The European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) decided today that Czech authorities did not sufficiently investigate the circumstances under which 23-year-old Vladimír Pecha died at a police station in Brno in June 2002. The court ruled that many procedural errors had been committed and that the death of the young man, who weighed only 58 kg, would not have occurred had police officers not led him past windows without bars and had they had kept better watch over him. The judgment is available here: http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=1&portal=hbkm&action=html&highlight=Eremi%E1%u0161ov%E1&sessionid=86633519&skin=hudoc-en
„The Court came to the opinion that Mr Pecha’s right to life was violated,“ David Zahumenský, chair of the League of Human Rights, said today. The Court has awarded compensation to the deceased man’s loved ones in the amount of EUR 20 0000 (about CZK 506 000) and another EUR 4 000 eur (about 101 000) as compensation for their court costs.
Zahumenský says the case is the first-ever instance of the ECtHR criticizing the Czech Republic for violating the right to life. „We hope this precedent will motivate the Czech Republic to improve its approach toward investigating cases wherein police are suspected of abusing their power or where crime victims are concerned,“ Zahumenský told the Czech Press Agency today.
The ECtHR criticized the fact that the police escort neglected the Romani man’s security when he was in their custody. The youth was not handcuffed and the officers led him past a window with no bars on it. Other mistakes were made during the investigation of his death. The ECtHR found that the Czech authorities‘ investigation had been based entirely on the police officers‘ statements and testimony, which means it cannot be considered entirely independent. (mehr…)
Fünf Personen müssen sich vor dem Amtsgericht Prenzlau wegen Volksverhetzung verantworten. Es geht um eine Zirkusfamilie, um Wut und Hass auf das Fremde.
In der Uckermark, ganz im Nordosten von Brandenburg und nahe der polnischen Grenze verliert sich das Zeitgefühl. Die Orte werden kleiner und die Wälder dichter. Gletscher formten hier eine Endmoränenlandschaft. Fürchterlich schön und einsam. In dieser ostdeutschen Einöde verbindet die Landstraße L23 Templin mit der A11. Etwa auf der Hälfte dieser Strecke durchquert die L23 auch den Ort Milmersdorf.
Vor anderthalb Jahren braute sich hier etwas Ungutes zusammen, so archaisch wie die Endmoränen. Eine Tat, die „geeignet“ war, „den öffentlichen Frieden zu stören“, wie die zuständige Staatsanwaltschaft Neuruppin in der Anklageschrift schreibt. Ein Dorfmob soll „Teile der Bevölkerung zum Hass“ angestachelt haben. Zielscheibe der Wut war die Zirkusfamilie H.
Es passiert am frühen Nachmittag des 24. September 2010. Was genau, darüber existieren zwei Erzählungen. Das Resultat jedoch lässt sich nicht mit Erinnerungslücken leugnen. Noch in der Nacht wird die Zirkusfamilie H. Milmersdorf unter Polizeischutz und völlig verängstigt verlassen. Die Scheiben ihrer Fahrzeuge sind zersplittert, Beulen an zwei Campingwohnwagen und dem LKW verursachen einen Sachschaden von 8 000 Euro. Zu einer Zirkusvorstellung ist es in Milmersdorf nicht gekommen.
Zwei Tage dauerte der Prozess vor dem Amtsgericht Prenzlau, der Dienstag zu Ende ging. 14 Zeuginnen und Zeugen wurden gehört. Die Anklage lautete auf Volksverhetzung, versuchte Nötigung und Sachbeschädigung. Sie richtete sich gegen drei Männer im Alter von 18, 21 und 31 Jahren sowie eine 18- und eine 26-jährige Frau. Ursprünglich hatte die Polizei gegen rund 10 Personen ermittelt. (mehr…)