Last Saturday's brutal murder in the eastern Slovak town of Dobšiná, of which a 22-year-old Romani man is suspected, is the reason why representatives of the Fascist party of Marian Kotleba, People's Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) assembled there yesterday. The suspect has been taken into custody.

If convicted, the young man faces up to 20 years in prison. The entire event transpired in front of a restaurant in the town in the Rožňava district.

The young man is charged with having assaulted a non-Roma customer in front of the restaurant with a wooden plank, causing him injuries of which he eventually died. Some media outlets are reporting that the two were friends, others that the victim was chosen absolutely randomly by the attacker.

The suspect will be in custody throughout his entire trial. Representatives of Kotleba's party have attempted to exploit the tragedy for their own visibility and appeared in the town on Sunday.

The extremists have been doing their best to exacerbate the tense situation between local ethnic Slovaks and Roma. "Local Roma are afraid. Rumors are spreading that they will be moving away," a close relative of a local Romani resident told news server Romea.cz.

Link: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/slovakia-ultra-right-tries-to-exploit-tragedy-raise-tensions-between-non-roma-and-roma

For the sixth time this year, the Roma from Bulgaria demonstrated not only in Sofia, but in Den Haag and Brussels against rising antiziganism and racist policies against Roma in Bulgaria.

Just in Den Haag 500 of them took part in a protest! Above all, they oppose the "Plan for the Integration of Non-Socialized Gypsies (Roma)", which the Bulgarian government intends to implement, as part of the EU's "Roma Inclusion" strategy.

The racist plan includes compulsory "social services" for over 16-year-olds, "uneducated and unemployed" Roma to be sent to "training centers" and cuts in social benefits for unemployed Roma or if they do not send their children to school.

In addition, "voluntary security units" should control areas where especially Roma live!

Link: https://www.newepoch.media/single-post/2019/03/15/BULGARIA---Roma-protest-against-racism-and-antiziganism?fbclid=IwAR20sFSJNFN-URcFDCdOtZKh2q7E7Zbr1JUzX23fnl3WuUu9_ewhc8wYOAI