Hundreds
of Roma people have been forcibly evicted from a village in western
Russia
after
one ethnic Russian was killed and another left in a coma. Tensions
between Roma people and Russian villagers in the region of Penza
boiled over last week, leading to a deadly brawl, arson attacks, and
forced evictions.
Videos posted
from the village
of Chemodanovka in the Penza region showed houses owned by Roma
families on fire after an ethnic Russian man was stabbed to death
during a mass brawl along racial lines. Four more were admitted to
hospital after the street fighting, which was said to have been
caused by complaints from Russian villagers against the Roma over
sexual harassment. Then,
suddenly, the Roma were gone, leaving behind empty houses.
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