Annual Report Discrimination 2015

Discrimination and the Roma community, 2015

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National.

Internet.

Hate speech.

Racism. The FSG alert service received the link to a blog:

gitanos.blogspot.com.es/ which fosters hatred towards the Roma community as a whole.

Following is an excerpt from that blog: :

Hello. Let me introduce myself. My name is May and this blog is for all of you who hate Gypsies. Why

do I hate them so much? Because they killed my uncle when I was only six years old. When I turned 11,

my grandmother and my mother told me that he had been killed by a Gypsy. Since then, my hatred

of Gypsies knows no bounds; it is unimaginable. I swore that I would get my revenge. When I was 13

I started to wish them the harm. I was a sweet little girl and I’ve always been good but my hatred for

them was stronger. At the age of 14 I had a fight with a Gypsy girl. At age 15 I started watching sadistic

films and snuff videos (snuff videos are real recordings of people who are abducted, tortured in unim-

aginable ways and then killed).

Our Department monitored that website very carefully and then filed a complaint before the hate crime and dis-

crimination service of the State Prosecutor as we believe that the author of that blog could be guilty of a crime

of incitement to hatred and discrimination regulated under Article 510 of the criminal code. We recently received

a response from the prosecutor informing us that an investigative proceeding has been initiated.

The prosecutor also told us that the investigators at the computer crime unit were unable to identify the author

without an international Letter Rogatory. Efforts are now being made to block this web page in Spain.

20.

National.

Internet.

Hate speech.

The Internet page

features open fora where racist and xenophobic comments are made tar-

geting the Roma community such as:

A girl yelled “shut up you Gypsy piece of shit”. The man apologised and stopped speaking but that

didn’t satisfy her. She yelled again: “Fuckin’ Gypsy shit.”

The Department sent a complaint to the administrator of those fora explaining that comments like these are an

attack on the dignity of the Roma community in general and present a negative and untrue image of the Roma

Community.

CASE 19