Anti-Gypsy program on NTV channel

On February 10, 2004, the program "Coma" was broadcast on the NTV television channel. In this program, in particular, it was reported that gypsies are engaged in drug trafficking in the city of Kimry, whom law enforcement agencies cannot bring to justice. against the Kimry Gypsies in order to "combat the spread of drugs" The broadcast also said that discriminatory measures were being taken . For example, the following facts were mentioned (here are excerpts from the transcript of the program text):

Father Andrei (Lazarev) (Priest of the Transfiguration Church, Kimry):

"... I went to the former police chief ... and said that if they don't take action, we will burn these houses . "

Without any editorial commentary about the legal inadmissibility of such actions, the words of a drug-addicted citizen are cited: “I think that we need to fight this in such a way that, in general, this whole camp must be taken out of there cleanly, with napalm or something to burn them out of there. Otherwise, there is no way to get them out " .

Announcer: "The director of the Palace of Culture, Tatyana Petrovskaya, is also fighting the drug mafia with all available means, she closed the door for gypsy teenagers, now she is afraid for her life . "

The MHG and the European Roma Rights Center are demanding a prosecutor's check on the "Coma" show.

Information provided by the European Roma Rights Center