Gipsies flee as far-Right open 'training camp’ [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telegraph

Gipsies flee as far-Right open 'training camp’
Nearly 300 gipsies have been evacuated out of a remote Hungarian village where a three-day, far-Right “training camp” has been set up.
By Matthew Day, Warsaw 3:26PM BST 22 Apr 2011

The gipsies, fled Gyongyospata, 50 miles from Budapest, after members of Vendro, a paramilitary group arrived .

The Hungarian Red Cross said it was the first time it had evacuated Hungarian civilians threatened by paramilitary activity since the Second World War. The far-Right Jobbik party won 17 per cent of the vote in a general election in the country last year.

Some 277 women and children were moved out in a convoy of busses Janos Farkos, deputy leader of the Hungarian Roma Rights Organisation, said that the village’s Roma population had felt “terrorised” by the presence of the far-right activists.

“The children had to be sent away this weekend because they wouldn’t be able to sleep at night,” Mr Farkos said.



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