Brutal pogrom against Hungarian speaking Roma people in Ukraine: one man died

As we already reported, attacks against national minorities in Ukraine are unfortunately not exceptional. For example, in February the headquarters of ethnic Hungarian cultural association KMKSZ in Uzhhorod, in western Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region was set on fire two times. Now, unknown people wearing masks attacked the Roma camp established near the city of Lviv (Lemberg). Seven assaulters were taken into custody; one young man died – reported hvg.hu.

The attacked Romas were from Transcarpathia

According to the Hungarian news portal, they were armed with knives and baseball bats, and they assaulted the Hungarian speaking Romas at Saturday midnight in the outer parts of Lviv. In fact,

one man died while four are severely injured. 

According to the local police, they commanded officers on the spot right at the moment when they received notice about the ongoing events. Thus, they could stop the aggression, and they took two attackers into custody.

Based on zik.ua, a Western-Ukrainian news portal’s report, one man (24) died in the attack. His permanent residency was in Szernye, a village in the Mukacheve (Munkács) Raion, Transcarpathia. Four men were taken to hospital with stab wounds. According to the news portal, one of them lives in Munkács while the others in Barkaszó, Mukacheve Raion.

The governor condemned the pogrom

In fact, Hennadiy Moskal, the governor of Zakarpattia Oblast (Transcarpathia) condemned the attack in a statement published on his official website. According to him, the assault in Lviv shows that