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III Examples based on case-law of findings made by N.C.C.D.’s Steering Board

2021 | ACTIVITY REPORT

                          Decision No. 44 of 20 January 2021                           of such statements by applying a fine amounting to
                                                                                       8,000 lei.
                         Statements made during a video material posted on a
                         social network which support the idea that Romanian             Decision No. 551 of 14 July 2021
                         citizens only exert features such as “scum, idiots,
                         traitors, cowards, filthy, dirty, illiterate, wretched,       Statements made during a taped interview regard-
                         drug-addicts, retarded” or that they represent “an            ing the Hungarian people, in general, by referring
                         inferior people” and “the most backward” or “the              to the fact that Hungarians are “frustrated people,
                         most retarded people in Europe”, as well as sim-              and these frustrations make it impossible for them
                         ilar references made toward Romanian citizens                 to stand anyone else by their side” represent an act
                         from different minority groups represent an act of            of discrimination.
                         discrimination.

                                                                                       Presenting lack of tolerance as a feature of an entire
                         Such statements of a general nature pass on a mes-            nation, without making a distinction between peo-
                         sage of incitement to hatred and intolerance, as              ple who are actually promoting racial hatred and
                         such labelling contributes to creating a hostile and          those who do not accept such an ideology is prone
                         defaming environment against Romanian citizens.               to create a hostile, offensive environment against a
                                                                                       community of persons living in Romania.
                         N.C.C.D.’s Steering Board found that acts of discrim-
                         ination were committed pursuant to Art. 2 para. 1             N.C.C.D.’s Steering Board found that acts of discrim-
                         and Art. 15 of the Anti-discrimination Law and or-            ination were committed pursuant to Art. 2 para. 1
                         dered an administrative sanction against the author           and Art. 15 of the Anti-discrimination Law and or-       43
                                                                                       dered an administrative sanction against the author