By Asaf Ronel
Hareetz | Oct. 30, 2013
The affair of Maria, described by the Greek media as "the blonde angel",
has unfolded in a manner that is a far cry from the story weaved by the
newspaper headlines decrying a Roma ring that kidnapped children for
the purpose of sex trafficking.
The
little girl's biological mother, also a Roma, was located in Bulgaria
and told how she had given her daughter to the adoptive parents of her
own free will because of financial distress. The Greek authorities have
not yet decided what to do with the girl, whose adoptive parents are
still under arrest, but the entire affair points at a serious problem of
racism in Greek society.
Such
severe accusations against a Roma couple and an entire ostracized
minority group would not have arisen without the fierce hatred of
foreigners in Greece. The same xenophobia also characterized the
behavior of the police and other authorities involved in the affair, who
hastened to assume the worst possible about the parents, and also
leaked details to the press.
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