The long-lasting anti-Roma discrimination in Europe’s criminal justice systems

Fair Trials, a global criminal justice watchdog, exposes the existing discrimination within Europe’s criminal justice systems. Their research focuses on four countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Spain. Their findings prove that the Roma community faces discriminatory attitudes and biases at every step of a criminal process, leading to a change in the outcome. This makes them very vulnerable within a system that is supposed to treat them equally and fairly. Similar attitudes were found in people whose role is to protect Roma, such as defence lawyers.