Sudanese doctor attacked in Slovakia
July 5, 2007 (BRATISLAVA) — Two unknown perpetrators attacked a 27-year-old doctor from Sudan, who has been living in Galanta, west Slovakia, for nine years, on Monday night, the People Against Racism association informed Czech news agency CTK today.
The police are still searching for the perpetrators.
The Sudanese doctor was assaulted on the way from a train station to his dormitory. All of a sudden, unknown men silently started to beat him on the head by some tool resembling a truncheon, said Maria Candrakova from the association, referring to the victim’s words.
The doctor suffered two lacerated wounds and a cheek oedema.
Candrakova claims that similar attacks on Romanies and darker-skinned foreigners have become more frequent in Slovakia.
“Neo-Nazis are constantly raging and threatening people in various localities in Slovakia,” she said.
Candrakova recalled the incident from mid-June when some 20 neo-Nazis beat up a young Romany in Spisska Bela, east Slovakia.
In March a group of men allegedly assaulted a 30-year-old African in Bratislava, calling him names. Mexican students also became victims of an attack in the Slovak capital.
(CTK)
Moreover, acts of extremism often accompany soccer matches in Slovakia.