photo : Zeljko Stevanic © Forum Ljubljana
In the autumn of 2006, Slovenia faced a new political reality. After a violent incident occurred between two men of Slovenian nationality, one of whom was actually part of a gipsy community, the citizens and the mayor of the municipality where the incident took place put such pressure on the government that it eventually decided to move the entire gypsy family to another location. Explaining its drastic move, the government declared that their safety was being threatened. So, instead of protecting the family’s constitutional right to enjoy their own property, the government tried to find them a new place in order to control the situation—all in vain, since people across Slovenia violently protested each and every time the state officials declared they had found a proper place for the gipsy family.
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