ANTIGYPSISM FILLS ROMANIAN STADIUMS. Datum Dienstag, 03 Mai @ 12:22:40 Bereich News on Romania rnBUCHAREST - On 13th of April 2005, Bucharest\'s mains stadium was packed.rnSteaua Bucharest was playing against Rapid Bucharest and the game hadrnone of the highest attendance records in recent Romanian games. Onlyrnthis time, spectators had to witness discrimination and incitement tornhatred, not football at it\'s finest, RSK reports.rnrnmore... ANTI-ROMA RACISM FILLS ROMANIAN STADIUMS.rnrnBUCHAREST - On 13th of April 2005, Bucharest\'s mains stadium was packed.rnSteaua Bucharest was playing against Rapid Bucharest and the game hadrnone of the highest attendance records in recent Romanian games. Onlyrnthis time, spectators had to witness discrimination and incitement tornhatred, not football at it\'s finest, RSK reports.rnrnThroughout the game Steaua\'s supporters chanted anti-Gypsy slogans andrnheaped uncalled for, racist verbal abuses against the host team, RapidrnBucharest. Even the loudspeaker was used for the purpose of furtherrnpropagating the explicit use of hate speech throughout the Stadium. Onernof Romania\'s most racist songs called \"Gypsies and UFOs\" was broadcastedrnthrough the Stadium speakers during the intermission.rnrnAfter the game, Steaua Bucharest\'s home game presenter, Gabi Safta,rnverbally abused the coach of Rapid, Razvan Lucescu, by calling him arn\"stinky Gypsy.\" Even before the game had begun, Gigi Becali, owner ofrnSteaua Bucuresti, had declared publicly that he would beat up thernex-owner of Rapid Bucuresti (the team is largely supported by the Romarncommunity in Bucharest) and one of the Romanian ministers, if he wouldrndare to come to the game. One of the richest men in Romania, GigirnBecali, openly supports the extreme right wing organization \"NouarnDreapta\". The organization has the same doctrine as the \"Iron Guard\", anrnextreme Nazi movement in Romania during the Second World War responsiblernfor murders including a pogrom that saw 200 Jews grotesquely murderedrnusing a slaughterhouse conveyor belt in a factory near Bucharest. Afterrnthe disturbing murders, the members of the \"Iron Guard\" stamped arnfive-year old girl\'s corpse as fit for consumption. According to thernIron Guard website, the Roma are considered to be \"a subhuman grouprnwhich steal our bread, replace our traditions, mugs our brothers andrnkill our parents.\"rnrnThe head of the Romanian Football League Dumitru Dragomir, a member ofrnthe Romanian Parliament, is likewise from the extremist party RomaniarnMare. The leader of Romania Mare, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, said that if hernwins the next election he would \"...isolate the Roma criminals inrnspecial colonies..\" in order to \".. Stop the transformation of Romaniarninto a Gypsy camp.. \". Dumitru Dragomir was also under investigation forrnbeing the owner of an anti-Semitic publication.rnrnAt the end of the game on 13th of April the Romanian FootballrnFederation\'s observer Valentin Alexandru said, \"The game was played inrn\"normal\" conditions and there is nothing he need report even thoughrnthroughout the game, the gallery was chanting \"We have always hatedrngypsies, we have always urinated on you\". \"Anti-Gypsyism in Romania andrnfor that matter all around Europe is the acceptable European racism andrnaccordingly largely ignored. Racist incidents against Roma on thernStadiums are usual and receive no attention as for example in the casernof Dinamo Bucuresti supporters who displayed a huge banner of Antonescurnduring a game viewed by the Romanian Ministry of Interior\" says ValeriurnNicolae, interim director of European Roma Information office (ERIO).rnERIO believes that probably the Romanian Football Federation would havern\"nothing to report\" even if presented face to face with cases such asrnthe 500 years of forced slavery of Roma in Romania, the Genocide of Romarnduring the Second World War, the pogroms of Roma at the beginnings ofrn1990s, among other things.rnrnDIVERSrnrnrn... WHILE CNCD FINES STEAUA FOOTBALL TEM FOR RACISMrnrnBUCHAREST - The National Council for Fighting Discrimination (CNCD)rnyesterday decided to fine the Steaua Bucharest football club 1,100 eurosrnfor the racist behavior of its supporters at the game the team playedrnagainst local rival Rapid.rnrnThe decision comes after several civic groups protested against thernracist behavior occurring at Romanian football stadiums, referringrnspecifically to the game that took place at Bucharest\'s Gheancea stadiumrnon April 13.rnrnAround 15 civic groups, including several organizations dealing with thernrights of the Roma community in Romania, including the Roma Center forrnSocial Intervention and Studies - Romani CRISS, the Resource Center forrnRoma Communities, the Association for Protecting Freedom of Speech andrnthe Communitarian Development Agency \"Impreuna,\" signed a press releasernstating that \"both before and during the match against Rapid, the Steauarnclub\'s board urged fans to commit acts of violence and intolerance.\" Thernrelease also refers to the stadium announcer at the game, Gabi Safta,rn\"who broadcast racist messages, with explicit reference to the ethnicrnorigins of the opposing team and its supporters.\"rnrnThe organizations also announced that they will notify not only thernRomanian institutions dealing with this issue but also internationalrnones with a request such acts will be penalized.rnrnThe Agency for Communitarian Development notified the CNCD with respectrnto the phrase used by Safta in a dialogue with Rapid\'s coach, RazvanrnLucescu - \"damned gypsy.\"rnrnThe CNCD, a government institution that specializes in preventingrndiscriminatory abuses and punishing all forms of discrimination, finedrnSteaua 40 million lei (1,100 euros) and recommended that the club takernthe necessary measures \"for stopping events with a racist characterrnwithin the competitions it organizes.\" The CNCD also fined Safta 550rneuros for urging discrimination and for the way he spoke to Lucescu.rnFollowing the match on April 13, the Rapid officials submitted a protest to rnthe Romanian Football League asking that penalties be applied in this case.rnrnDIVERSrn Dieser Artikel kommt von RomNews Network Community @ RomNews.com/de http://www.RomNews.com/ Die URL für diesen Artikel ist: http://www.RomNews.com//modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1670