The ability of a ten year old child to identify the assailant as "someone who should go back to where they came from" combined with the police invoking race laws suggests that the assailant was nonwhite.
Gypsy perhaps? The article was studiously careful in avoiding such specifics, as was the photographer.
“Gypsy perhaps? The article was studiously careful in avoiding such specifics, as was the photographer.”
I am a Slovak. I read about the attack on brusselsjournal.com. Then I googled the poor boy’s name and found this forum - among many others.
As some people mentioned - the media avoided any information about race or ethnic background of the woman. In Slovakia there are 5 000 000 inhabitants of which there are 500 000 Roma people. I don’t care if someone calls me a racist but the fact is that coexistence with Roma is more than difficult. There are artists and educated people among them but the big majority live in their own world. We do not mix, they do not mix. For centuries. Here is an introduction to this problem by a man who would be considered by many people in Slovakia to be too soft:
http://ociganoch.jinde.cz/About.html
As I said, thanks to Political Correctness in British media I cannot be sure if the woman is Roma. But I can at least guess. Here are two quite different versions of what happened:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483974&in_page_id=1770
http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3010217.ece
In the Independent article you can find this “It is very hard not to conclude there is some racism behind this. We do the same work that everyone else does – picking crops, working in pack houses. But Slovakians have darker skin than other Eastern Europeans. I don’t hear of Poles being abused in the street. But often I hear of it from my Slovakian friends.”
Well, you certainly wouldn’t be able to tell apart a Pole/Slovak/Russian judging by the colour of skin. It is as if you said native Swedish are darker then Danes.
Also I cannot imagine a white Slovak accusing another white person of racism against them. Doesn’t make sense. That’s what we get accused of when we say something against Roma.
Also “an increasing number of Slovak families in the area had led to friction with British parents”. What? Almost all white Slovaks who go to Britain are young singles who want to earn some money before they come back home to buy a flat/house and start a family. Slovak Roma are known to travel Western Europe to collect welfare benefits wherever possible. The more family members you have with you the better.
Roma or not that woman is either a psycho or a criminal and should be put to jail for a long time. Accusing the boy borders with idiocy. I am also not happy the British media never mentioned the ethnic/racial background of the woman. Closing one’s eyes does not solve any problem. Even less so for Roma because if Slovaks find out what name Roma get them abroad the deep divisions get deeper.