Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

The Case of Baby Maria: Understanding Europe’s Roma

(Version anglaise seulement)

For more than a week now much of the global media has been fixated on “baby Maria,” a young blond girl who authorities seized from a Romani couple near Farsala in central Greece on the basis of her fair complexion. The couple was arrested and charged with welfare fraud and child abduction. DNA tests have proved that a Bulgarian Roma woman is the biological mother of the little girl in Greece the press dubbed as “the blond angel.” The woman, Sasha Ruseva, says she gave birth to the ...

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