Czech MP calls for deportation of Roma to Haiti

A photo with inscription “Help for Haiti – We will send them 200,000 new Haitians” on a Czech MP's Facebook profile has sparked strong reactions.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 20.05.2011.

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A photo with inscription “Help for Haiti – We will send them 200,000 new Haitians” on a Czech MP's Facebook profile has sparked strong reactions. "Should they be helped, then be it real help" read the inscription on ruling Czech Civic Democrats (ODS) MP Jiri Sulc’s Facebook profile, alluding to the Roma (Gypsies). Czech MP calls for deportation of Roma to Haiti The picture had been posted on Facebook for more than a year. After Czech Television (CT) informed Sulc about it, he removed it from his profile Thursday. "I don't know anything about it. If there is something like that, I'll have it removed," Sulc told CT. Martin Simacek, director of the government Agency for social inclusion of Roma, said such photographs on politicians' websites caused tensions in regions that were already problematic. “Such conduct may be a crime,” Simacek told CT. "It is a racial attack on the Roma population in the Czech Republic, and it is also inadmissible in view of what happened in Haiti," he said, referring to the disastrous earthquake that hit the country last year. This is not the first time Sulc is facing problems due to his controversial statements. The posters he had put up in several towns in the Usti region, north Bohemia, before the 2008 elections featured the slogan "Work hard, gadji, so that we are better-off!" "Gadji" is the Romani expression for people who are not of Roma origin.

Czech MP calls for deportation of Roma to Haiti

The picture had been posted on Facebook for more than a year. After Czech Television (CT) informed Šulc about it, he removed it from his profile Thursday.

"I don't know anything about it. If there is something like that, I'll have it removed," Šulc told CT.

Martin Šimaček, director of the government Agency for social inclusion of Roma, said such photographs on politicians' websites caused tensions in regions that were already problematic.

“Such conduct may be a crime,” Šimaček told CT.

"It is a racial attack on the Roma population in the Czech Republic, and it is also inadmissible in view of what happened in Haiti," he said, referring to the disastrous earthquake that hit the country last year.

This is not the first time Šulc is facing problems due to his controversial statements.

The posters he had put up in several towns in the Usti region, north Bohemia, before the 2008 elections featured the slogan "Work hard, gadji, so that we are better-off!"

"Gadji" is the Romani expression for people who are not of Roma origin.

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