As Minority Ombudsman, I am concerned that in recent days, the occurrence of a previous tragic crime has been used repeatedly by some organisations to publish content on various social media platforms that clearly incites hatred against Roma citizens living in our country. The same organisations have also announced a demonstration that could be used to violate the human dignity of members of the Roma community and to create fear in them.

Fifteen years ago today, on 23 February 2009, shots were fired in Tatárszentgyörgy. In the yard of their own house, Róbert Csorba, a man of Roma origin, and his six-year-old son were murdered in cold blood. The brutal act was followed by a series of attacks, which in 2008-2009 resulted in a total of six deaths and several injuries in a series of ethnically motivated attacks against Roma.