Czech Organizations Insist The Lower House And Prime Minister Reject The Anti Romani Remarks Of The Ombudsman
The ombudsman swore his oath on 19 February 2020 and then assumed the office. Last month, on the official website of the Public Defender of Rights, he said in his comments on the Government’s draft Roma Integration Strategy that some Romani people have problems finding housing not because landlords discriminate against them, but because “they devastate the housing stock and transform a part of these municipalities into excluded localities”. Elsewhere on his blog Křeček has written, among other things, that: “The labor of black slaves in the past was a significant contribution to the creation of wealth in the USA, but under no circumstances can the same thing be said of the European Roma....