rampant antitsiganism
Whatever the truth behind the Greek “blonde angel” case (which even if true would be a single case, not a collective crime by the Roma as a community… and the un-truth of the Irish blonde-angel case is now established) – the way it has been reported (and not only by the likes of the Daily Mail!) is a worrying reminder of the currency that anti-tsiganist stereotype still has across Europe. Louise Doughty on the Guardian’s Cif brings it to the point:
On the comment pages of the Daily Mail there are still plenty of calls to strip-search every singly Roma camp, just to be sure. I don’t recall similar calls in cases of abduction committed by white middle-class people – or did I miss something and people actually were calling for a razzia on all cellars of residential homes in Austria?