ROMEA TV holds another debate between Govt representatives and Romani civil society: Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek visits Brno
ROMEA TV, in collaboration with the Romodrom organization, is holding yet another debate between Romani civil society and representatives of the Government of the Czech Republic. This time Justice Minister Pavel Blažek will debate recent events.
The discussion will be filmed and then broadcast on news server Romea.cz. The first such debate was held in mid-August and was attended by Interior Minister Vít Rakušan.
Richard Samko will moderate. Other panelists include Vice-Mayor of Brno Robert Kerndl, Czech Government Commissioner for Romani Minority Affairs Lucie Fuková, and a member of the newly-established Brno Council of Roma, Tomáš Ščuka.
Other guests in the audience will be from pro-Romani and Romani nonprofits and from elsewhere. Those invited include Miroslav Zima (Drom), Petr Máčal (IQ Roma servis), Jozef Daniel (Brno tým), Nikola Taragoš (Romodrom), Gejza Horváth, Žaneta Plachetková and others.
Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek sharply objected to the assembly of Romani people that was held in Pardubice in response to a street brawl between a group of Romani people and three Ukrainians during which one of the Romani men was injured with a knife. News server Romea.cz has been informed that two Romani men and one Ukrainian man have been preliminarily charged in the case.
“The assembly in Pardubice is being convened and held in breach of the law on assembly. Calling for people to attend and attending are both illegal. The Constitution and the laws must apply to everybody, the ‘majority’ and the ‘minority’. Any other approach could result, in time, to what we are following, for example, in France and elsewhere. If the organizers want to get the Government’s attention, as they claim, they should do so in accordance with the law,” Blažek tweeted.
That remark will be one subject of the debate. “We will also discuss the release from custody of the man accused of the murder of a young Romani man in Brno, and we will also discuss the creation of the Brno Council of Roma – how the Council will cooperate with the city and other institutions, what it will address and what its competences and powers will be,” Samko told Romea.cz.
