‘It starts with us’: Roma rights defender warns AfD win normalises hatred of minorities

‘It starts with us’: Roma rights defender warns AfD win normalises hatred of minorities

Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, an equal rights experts and defender of Roma minority rights, says the historic Saxony-Anhalt election win by the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) means racism is now normalised in the country. “Roma are always historically among the first communities to be targeted. This does not mean that it ends with us. It starts with us,” she said on Monday (7 September), in reference to the Nazi era-holocaust where Roma wer…