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Al Jazeera
Tim Gosling

Roma pushed to turn on Ukrainian refugees in Czech Republic

The Czech Republic has taken in about 350,000 Ukrainian refugees since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 [File: Michal Cizek/AFP]

Nicolas Dirda, a Roma man, was stabbed to death on June 10 on a tram in the Czech Republic as he travelled to a firework display at a lake just outside the country’s second city, Brno.

The murder sparked angry protests among the Roma, a significant minority who number about 250,000 in the country of 10.5 million.

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