Reportáž: Děti v romských osadách v Řecku

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24 Titulek: Gypsy slums of Greece Popis: September 16, 2011, Tavros, Athens/Attica, Greece: Almost 30,000 Gypsies or "Roma" from Albania and Bulgaria enter Greece in the last two years. Since 1998, one thousand Roma have lived in a slum in the Votanicos area, of the Tavros municipality of Athens. Their 600 children aged from infants to 15 years old, live under unhealthy conditions in the garbage strewn township where the Roma survive by stealing or collecting metal garbage to sell. The Roma burn cables to extract the copper inside, which creates a toxic cloud from cancerous dioxines that hangs over their shantytown. While shantytowns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a points of entry into the EU, including Athens. In October 2013, an unidentified girl, called "Maria," was found in a Greek gypsy camp and could be related to missing child cases. Over 8,000 calls about the girl from all over the world including the U.S. and Canada have been received inquiring about the child. The blond girl, approximately age 4, was found in a Roma gypsy settlement in central Greece. DNA tests proved that she was not related to the 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman who claimed to be her parents.
Asi tisícovka Romů žije v chudinské osadě Votanicos na athénském předměstí Tavros. | Foto: Profimédia