{"id":440293,"date":"2025-11-18T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/11\/18\/slovenia-il-parlamento-approva-la-stretta-sulla-sicurezza-per-gli-attivisti-e-una-mossa-anti-rom\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:34:58","slug":"slovenian-parliament-backs-security-crackdown-activists-call-out-anti-roma-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/slovenian-parliament-backs-security-crackdown-activists-call-out-anti-roma-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenian parliament backs security crackdown; activists call out anti-Roma move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels -Tensions are mounting against the Roma community<\/strong> in Slovenia<\/strong>, following recent incidents that have raised the temperature of the public debate. At midnight yesterday (17 November), MPs approved a controversial law granting police broad powers<\/strong> to monitor so-called high-risk areas<\/strong>, which critics denounce as discriminatory. <\/p>\n

The new regulation was tabled after the killing of Ale\u0161 \u0160utar<\/strong> on 25 October by a 21-year-old Roma man during an argument in a nightclub in Novo Mesto<\/strong>, in the south of the country. That incident triggered large street<\/strong> protests<\/strong>, the massive deployment of police forces in Romani neighborhoods,<\/strong> and the dismissal of two ministers<\/strong> from the cabinet of the liberal premier Robert Golob<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The head of government promised to remedy the situation, emphasising that the new rules were not intended “against a particular ethnic group, but against crime<\/strong>.” The new regulation gives police forces the power to monitor neighborhoods designated as particularly dangerous<\/strong> for public safety with greater discretion. <\/p>\n

There, the police will be allowed to enter a property<\/strong> or a means of transport without a court warrant<\/strong> (but not to conduct a formal house search) if they assess it as being “strictly necessary” to seize potential firearms immediately<\/strong>. In cases of necessity, forcible entry will be permitted. For the same purposes, wider video-photographic and audio surveillance<\/strong> will be allowed. <\/p>\n

The delimitation of “risk areas”<\/strong> will be the responsibility of the local police chief or the national police director, based on “objective indicators<\/strong>.” Surveillance orders must be issued in writing, are valid for a maximum of three months, and must be presented within 24 hours to an investigating judge<\/strong> for confirmation or cancellation.<\/p>\n

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Slovenian prime minister Robert Golob (photo: Frederic Garrido-Ramirez via Imagoeconomica)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 According to some surveys, over 60 percent of Slovenian citizens<\/strong> support<\/strong> the government’s crackdown. Several observers regard the \u0160utar law, passed as part of an omnibus package<\/strong> that also included a crackdown on violent crime and a tightening of social welfare rules, as a wink from Golob to the nationalist electorate, which, according to polls, would prefer his populist predecessor, Janez Jan\u0161a<\/strong>, to the current prime minister. <\/p>\n

After all, tonight’s vote showed a rather cross-party unity of purpose<\/strong> in the hemicycle. Two of the three parties in the governing coalition – Golob’s Movement for Freedom (GS<\/strong>) and the Social Democrats (SD<\/strong>) – defended the bill along with opposition forces such as New Slovenia (NSi<\/strong>) and the Democratic Party (DS<\/strong>). The third partner in the majority, the Left (Levica<\/em><\/strong>), walked out of the chamber. The other opposition forces criticised the executive not so much on the content of the rules, but rather on the slowness in responding to crime<\/strong> perpetrated by the Roma (sic<\/em>) people and the lack of ambition of the new regulations. <\/p>\n

For human rights groups, this is a direct attack against the Slovenian Roma communities<\/strong> and an attempt to segregate them through legislation denounced as repressive and discriminatory<\/strong>. Just yesterday, Amnesty International<\/em><\/a> had asked – in vain – the Parliament not to pass it. The text of the law could soon be challenged<\/strong> before the Constitutional Court, according to remarks made by some jurists. <\/p>\n

For Mensur Haliti<\/strong>, vice-president of the Roma Foundation for Europe<\/em>, the Slovenian government has come out in the open. “This law transforms entire neighborhoods into security zones<\/strong> and their residents into security categories,” he said, complaining that the text “treats an entire minority as a security threat<\/strong>.” Addressing the European Commission (which just today organised an enlargement forum<\/a> in Brussels, urging candidate countries to respect EU values<\/strong>), Haliti stressed that “a Union that allows fear to become internal politics<\/strong> cannot give lessons of democracy and rule of law to its neighbours.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n

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