Solidarity with the Roma

The ICOR condemns any discriminating and racist treatment in the EU and by the EU.

Most of all, the attempt of the French president Sarkozy to divert attention from the effects of the economic crisis in France and the struggle of the millions of toiling people against social dismantling, especially against the planned deterioration in the pension system, by stigmatizing the Roma, is simply despicable.

This in particular because in the days of Hitlerite fascism the Roma were the second group of humans, besides the Jews, sacrificed to insane race politics. That humans today are again treated according to such criteria, and this in the motherland of human rights, challenges our sharpest protest and our internationalist solidarity with the Roma people.