On
the 27th of September, in full patriotic swing, the newspaper The
Flame of Iasi published the article, “I have had enough of
these Gypsies,” signed by the Romanian writer and spokesperson
of the
Museum
of
Literature
, Calin Ciubotari.
The
article opens with a proof of the author’s tolerant thinking, as
he complains, “It is getting difficult to express any opinion
about minorities.”
Indeed,
past are the good times when slavery, rape, violence, deportation
or the simple, honest and patriotic murder of a Roma or a Jew on
the streets of
Iasi
or any other place in
Romania
was a solution to problems. Now, as the enlightened author writes,
there is a danger that somebody will do the utmost crime and
“accuse” these genuine patriots of “racism, discrimination
and a lot of other terrible things one can’t even imagine.”
It
is only through the courage of the newspaper in
Iasi
that “a Romanian in his own country” can make public “openly
and loudly” his hatred against Roma. There are no more public
places where one can sell the Roma as cattle; and no political
tribunes are easily available in the parliament or presidential
palace for true patriots as Mr Ciubotari to promote their
revolutionary ideas about their desired country.
Romania
should be in the author’s view a country without the Gypsies,
described as “those disgusting beings” with “filthy and lewd
women” dragging their “broods which shit on themselves.”
We
become witnesses of the drama Mr. Ciubotari has to go through as
he cannot “yell his anger in his own country” about the Roma
who “soil our cities,” who “are a shame for
Romania
” and who are “a living proof we come from monkeys.” Mr.
Ciubotari continues his kind description of Roma and adds a few
more qualities “hysterical,” “cunning,” ”treacherous,”
and “societal abortions”.
Despite
the fact that there is no mention of the nazi “vital space,”
the reader understands such a need despite the ultimate generosity
of Mr. Ciubotari who still seems to allow Roma to live in
Iasi
. This generosity is hinted by the author’s concession to accept
“as equal” the “quality Gypsies” who he helpfully defines
as those who “escaped their genetic curse.”
The
next day, on the 28th of September, the same newspaper published
another manifesto of the writer, Dorin Spineanu. Mr. Spineanu even
more elegantly than his colleague shares with the readers his wish
“to pee” on a Romanian literature piece called, “The
Caravan,” a badly hidden euphemism for peeing on the Roma. The
brave warrior defends what he sees as the “generous and
sensitive spirit” of his colleague Mr. Ciubotari.
Obviously,
touched in his deepest feelings by Mr. Ciubotari’s article, he
raves against the “scum Gypsies” responsible for the
radicalisation of the pure and generous Romanians such as his
colleague. The same tolerant and loving attitude, which, in the
past, led the heroes of the nation to the annihilation of hundred
of thousands of Jews and Roma, seems to strike the author, as he
has a “pain in his heart” seeing a “puradel” [a pejorative
for a Roma child] and wonders about his future, since his parents
“are animal like”.
Both
Mr. Ciubotari and Mr. Spineanu are published Romanian writers.
There is no response from any state institution including the
Minister of Education and Culture in
Romania
about these articles. The first article includes also an attack on
gays and lesbians.
The
recent past events
indicate a wide acceptance and sometimes promotion of anti-Gypsyism
at the highest levels of political elites in
Romania
,
Italy
and
Bulgaria
and are corroborated with a shameful silence of the European
Union.
