Discrimination against Roma in the Czech Republic

This weekend, customers at a mall in Prague experienced what Roma gypsies often suffer in the Czech Republic: discrimination. "All those visiting one store," Lucie Frydecka explains, "had to pass through a security check after their purchase. It was primed and indicated with a loud beep that the customer must have stolen something, which gathered great crowds. 'People who had been wrongly charged had to suffer through uncomfortable moments,' said Jarmila Balazova of the Roma organisation Romea, justifying the action. It was well received by 'white' Czechs, which surprised the Roma."

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