Roma fears heighten after child abduction reports

Reports of child abductions by Roma in Greece and Ireland in October 2013 caused anxiety about a vigilante backlash against this population, according to EUObserver.

Dezideriu Gergely, executive director of the Budapest-based European Roma Rights Centre, told this website the 25 October 2013 that a far-right group in Serbia tried to take the law into its own hands in the past few days.

The Serb case was said to stem from negative media reports after a couple in Greece allegedly abducted a girl thought to be between the age of five or six.

ESO: Background information: Roma: Commission calls on Member States to step up efforts on integration http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-roma-commission-calls-on-member-states-to-step-up-efforts-on-integration/

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