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Wed 02 Feb 2009Hungary failing to combat anti-Roma crime, says minister
HUNGARY’S JUSTICE minister has admitted that his country’s police force is failing to find those responsible for a growing number of fatal attacks on members of the Roma, or Gypsy, community.
Tibor Draskovics pledged to deploy more police to rural areas after the latest killing, in which a Roma man and his five-year-old son were apparently shot dead as they escaped their burning home.
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