As an Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant at FAGiC, I would like to focus my stories more on Austria and the Porajmos in general. Today however I’d like to start with something from our recent past - the assassination of Erwin Horvath, Karl Horvath, Peter Sarközi and Josef Simon. On the night of the 4 th February 1995, four men out of the region of Oberwart in Burgenland- AT, died while they intended to remove a signpost with the inscription “Roma back India”. It was a bomb that was settled to explode by first contact that later turned out to be the worst political motivated assassination of the second Republic of Austria since 1945. At first the investigating authority’s thought, that the four men themselves tried to remove the racist signpost with the bomb, but after searches of their homes - the authorities withdrew the version and perceived the connection of a racially motivated attack. The Roma clearly felt offended by the accusations from the authorities, since they just h
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