Molotov cocktails and gunshots in Tarnabod

Alert DateSeptember 29, 2008 Country: Hungary Address: Tarnabod General Type: Racist violence, Discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-roma/zinghanophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Roma & Travelers

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In 2008 an attack took place in Tarnabod, where Molotov cocktails were thrown and gunshots fired at three homes in a neighbourhood with a significant Roma population. No one was injured. The case is still pending.[1]

[1]     EÖKK (2009) Cigánynak lenni Magyarországon, Jelentés 2008 (Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research: A Roma's Life in Hungary. Report 2008), Budapest: Európai Összehasonlító Kisebbségkutatások Közalapítvány, p. 219.