discrimination for more on this let's bring in georgia law novich he's the president of the european roma rights center and he joins us now from. and george as we just heard there we just saw documentation of violence against n.t. and roma and ukraine what can you tell us about the situation for these groups in other countries. no reports from ukraine but from other countries oh well give us a lot of war is that. on the raise in europe we see very high official from european member states government giving statements in which they openly promote and support them as an example in bulgaria of fashion's that is convinced on the anti hate crime against roma for calling them animals get to be a deputy prime minister of the country and as the biggest irony he gets to run to national council for the integration of minorities including those people that he called animals at the same time italian interior minister silvio calls for the roma act next census promises cleaning the feet. of their own the presence openly expressed regret that he context felt italian roma. because they are protected as italian citizen

more on this now we can speak to george you've been over it she's the president of the european roma rights center and he joins us now from sochi know beside in serbia first of all in our report we heard about increasing violence against cincy enrolment in ukraine what can you tell us about the situation for cindy and roma in other countries. so just to give you an idea of what kind of a year two thousand and eighteen has. for example in bulgaria. conviction for a hate speech gets to be a deputy prime minister of the country and the biggest irony that he gets to run the national council for integration of minorities in the country at the same time we need for example interior minister calls for. the need to keep promise ethnic cleansing. and express regret that he contacts belt italian. or italian citizens to suggestions about census was rejected illegal but then we see the real consequence of statements in the everyday life of people last week in rome we said we have picked example of where for example the local authorities carried out a massive action of roma from their houses where they were ev