2023-09-18 10:22:02
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main Roma organization has recorded hundreds of incidents of discrimination and racism once morest the minority in the past year, according to a report published Monday that warned that a rise in nationalism and right-wing extremism is contributing to violence. once morest minorities in Germany.
The Central Council of Romani and German Sinti indicated that the majority of the 621 documented incidents were cases of discrimination and “verbal stereotyping.” But there were also 11 cases of threats, 17 attacks and one case of “extreme violence,” the group said. The organization believes that racism once morest Roma and Sinti is probably much greater because many cases are not reported.
Roma and Sinti are recognized minorities in Germany. About 60,000 Sinti and 10,000 Roma live in the country, according to the German Federal Agency for Civil Education.
The report “clearly shows the dangers of rising nationalism and rights extremism, which once more lead to aggression and violence once morest Sinti and Roma and other minorities,” the group’s head Romani Rose told reporters in Berlin.
The case of “extreme violence” occurred this year in the western state of Saarland, when people traveling in two cars insulted members of the community “in an anti-gypsy manner” and then shot them with an air gun. Several people were injured, according to the Anti-Ziganism Reporting Office, which compiled findings for 2022.
Roma who have fled war in Ukraine were disproportionately discriminated once morest, the report said.
The study also revealed that around half of the cases of discrimination occurred “at the institutional level”, which implies that Roma and Sinti people were discriminated once morest by employees of state institutions such as the police, child protection offices, centers employment or municipal administrations responsible for housing refugees.
“The state must finally assume its responsibility and guarantee the protection of Sinti and Roma once morest violence, exclusion and discrimination,” said Mehmet Daimagueler, the government’s anti-gypsy commissioner.
During the Third Reich, the Nazis persecuted and murdered between 220,000 and 500,000 European Roma and Sinti.
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