I am an INDIAN, and I came to know about Roma People recently.
We Indians are a type of people who accept other people the most easily.Even though they may murder and rape our brethen.History of India is testimony to this.
Nevertheless the Roma People who are actually people of Indian Origin are still facing discrimination.
No community is bad or devilish.We may not like even our own brother or father.Stereotyping a community is bad.
All type of people(good and bad ) are there everywhere.Let us understand this and be more tolerant towards the OTHER.We are responsible for our own misfortunes.Others happiness is our happiness,definitely.
Ashish

Well in Prekmurje the local authority showed a lot of patience and the Roma made an effort to license their buildings, make their surroundings not littered with trash and send their children to school, so they can get educated in order to be qualified for a legal job.
But in Dolenjska people are somewhat less patient and also the Roma aren’t making the effort to blend in. What I want to say is, that Roma aren’t rejected on principle, but manly because of their actions.

Some Roma complain there is no other way than stealing and other wrongdoing becouse they can’t get a job since they are Roma, but there is plenty of Slovenians unemployed because they don’t qualify (or they do but there simply isn’t any job availible to them), so why would anyone hire a Roma who didn’t even finish the elementary school (which is free and obligatory) and can hardly read.
Most of their houses are illegaly built and remain so for decades. Police is obvlivious to the complaints of their neighbours (and certaintly was in the case of Ambrus) and usually do nothing to resolve tefths, shoting and littering. They usually tap into the electriciy which then has to be paid by their neighbours and don’t have a sewage which can be a major problem in Dolenjska since it’s a karst region and the water gets polluted easily. There are more complicated issues at hands then this, but the point is that Slovenians aren’t opposing Roma because of the culture or language or something like that, but because of the problems they cause to the community. And they can actualy get away with it, because if they are persecuted in any way, they say people are intolerant since they’re Roma.
But there are also those Roma who work hard, but can’t get through because of the bad image. This is not a simple white or black problem, but more like a real mess.
And as usual the loud are unfourtunately also those who cast the bad image on the whole group.
And since the govermment doesn’t do much about it, it is no wonder that people in time reach the boiling point.
This is not a simple problem of tolerence, but a much more complex issue which can’t be solved easily or fast.

Also I do not appreciate how the story was blown out of proportions

I am an indian and feel a deep sense of similarity and keenship with the gypsies/roma as they are called. Indian government is not fighting for their rights today which is deplorable anyways.

Coming to your point of europe being overwhelmed by gypsies, what will you do anyways with your falling birth rates and aging populations. You any way have to bring in indian immigrants who are young and talented. Then we indians will team up with out gypsy blood brothers and rule over your counties

Strojan’s are not some innocent, pour gypsy family. I don’t feel sorry for them. Not for criminals.