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National Council for Combatting Discrimination in print media

Basescu, against persons of Roma       Nicolae Bacalbasa, PSD                   Christian religious groups recognized      administrative fine amounting
origin:                                MP, sanctioned for                       according to the Romanian law, in          to 1,000 lei against a driver who
                                                                                relation to the participation to Easter    forced a Roma girl to get off the
                                       statements against Roma
“Look, I think that even here, this                                             celebrations, on the background of         school mini-bus, while the mayor
was proven once more, that Roma-       Mr. Nicolae Bacalbasa, PSD MP,           the pandemic situation.                    of the Petrachioaia municipality
nians’ kindness and tolerance result   received an administrative fine                                                     was sanctioned with a 3,000 lei fine
in damaging their interests, in the    amounting to 6,000 lei for a Face-       The NCCD Steering Board                    for having forbidden the student in
end. That is because we artificially   book post which stated                   issued a recommendation to                 question to use the same mini-bus
called them Roma people around                                                  the Ministry of Internal Affairs           for a 30-day period.
1991 (...). Now all that you can see   „No!... Let us be clear about this!!!    so that this institution should
here, as you know,                     The Chinese have caught the virus        observe, for the future, its duty

                                       from the bats, we’ll catch it from       to act equidistant in relation to          Segregation case
Also happens abroad, and there         our crows.”                              all religious groups recognized            against Roma students
everyone talks about Romanians.                                                 in Romania and should
                                                                                                                           sanctioned in Iasi
This minority has built a deplorable                                            establish non-discriminatory
image to the Romanian people. It       Administrative warning                   rules in exercising the right              NCCD assessed that segregation
is the time to say this and, in the    issued for the Ministry                  to freedom of conscience.                  of Roma students enrolled in the
end, to give up using this made-up                                                                                         5th grade of the Dagata school, in
                                       of Internal Affairs as a
label of Roma. They are Gypsies.                                                                                           Iasi county, represents a discrimi-
This is the ethnic group that we
                                       result of different rules                Driver sanctioned for                      natory action and an infringement

are talking about. And this is how     applied for participation                having forced a Roma                       of the right to dignity, therefore the
we should call them! The groups of     to Easter celebrations                   girl to get off the mini-                  Council sanctioned the headmaster
Gypsies should understand that their                                                                                       of the educational unit with an
way of living cannot be tolerated”     The National Council for Combatting
                                                                                bus. Similar sanction                      administrative fine amounting to
were sanctioned by NCCD with an        Discrimination issued an adminis-        issued for the mayor                       2,000 lei and the Iasi County School
administrative fine amounting to       trative warning against the Ministry                                                Inspectorate with a fine amounting
6,000 lei.                             of Internal Affairs, for having failed   The National Council for Com-              to 4,000 lei. The NCCD Steering
                                       to conclude an agreement with all        batting Discrimination issued an           Board also recommended that a

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