Beating of Roma Musician’s Son-in-law Zawada

Three villagers brutally assaulted a 19-year-old Roma man, Jimmy, son-in-law of a renowned Roma guitarist Eugeniusz Merstein-Kwiatkowski. Beaten despite his arm being in a cast, he was attacked solely for his ethnicity, illustrating the persistence of casual racist violence.

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