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Discrimination and the Roma community, 2015
27. National. Press. Direct discrimination. The newspaper ABC ran an article under the following headline: “Chi-
nese shopkeeper shot with a shotgun for resisting a robbery.”
“The attacker, known by local business owners and neighbours and a neighbourhood resident, was not
difficult to find. Group VI homicide police together with the local police picked him up at his home
where he was handcuffed and arrested. He is a Gypsy. This is not the first time this family has suffered
attacks in the four years they’ve had their shop. ‘A year ago they cut my hand’ says Dong showing
the scar on his thumb and index finger. He then showed the bullet holes in beer cans, a door and some
wall tiles.”
28. National. Press. Direct discrimination. The newspaper called 20 Minutos published a story under the following
headline: “16-year-old referee attacked”
“A football match was played between CD Bosco from Armunia and San Andrés in the 7-8 year old
football league. At the end of the match the father of one of the Bosco players along with another
man approached the teen-age referee. The second man held the referee’s arms while the player’s father
punched him in the face and mid-section. He ended up with a bloody eye. The police arrived on the
scene and identified the aggressors, who were Gypsies.”
In this and the preceding news story, the irrelevant detail of the person’s ethnic group is mentioned.
29. National. Internet. Direct discrimination. The following comments about Roma were found on an Internet
page called meneame.com:
Not all Gypsies are anti-social thieves. Some are peaceful drug dealers.”
“And then you have the Gypsies that accuse any other Gypsy who works a 40-hour week, puts his kids
through school, goes to university or lets his wife work as a Judas.”
“The Department wrote to the web page administrator requesting that he eliminate these racist and xenophobic
comments which only serve to perpetuate prejudices and stereotypes against the Roma community.
30. National. Internet. Hate speech. The press alert service discovered an anti-Roma blog.
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