This opinion was issued in the procedure acting upon the complaint filed by the Education and Culture Institution R.R. against T.B., the author of \u201c\u017d.P.\u201d TV show on account of alleged discrimination on the ground of national affiliation. The complainant states that the author of \u201c\u017d.P.\u201d television show, T.V. during \u201cA.P:\u201d program, in stating the \u201cnationality of an underage person classifying him as a little bully because he was in a group of children exhibiting violent behavior, without giving their nationality\u201d \u201callowed a generalization leading to a conclusion that Roma community in general was prone to savage behavior, which is associated with them\u201d. In their explanation, \u00a0P. television station stated that the only context adjective \u201cRomany\u201d had been mentioned was to describe a certain event that occurred in a particular time sequence in a Roma settlement and not in the context of nationality. In the course of the procedure it was ascertained that the nationality of culprits who have perpetrated a violent act against a child, had not been mentioned but that the nationality of an underage person could be anticipated once his mother\u2019s, grandmother\u2019s and relatives\u2019 names had been mentioned, all of them living in living in \u201cC.Z.\u201d settlement in N., and that T.V. with her questions, comments and statements expressed her negative perception of violent behavior in general, and that the nationality of violators as such had no significance whatsoever. Following the analysis of the application, the review of explanation offered and after watching the \u201cA.P.\u201d show again, the conclusion was that the TV show author T.V. had not committed an act of discrimination, i.e. \u00a0she had not, with her comments and statements ascribed \u201csavage behavior\u201d to members of Roma community thus violating their dignity based on a personal trait. The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality issued the opinion stating that T.V. had not, with her comments and statements made in \u201cA.P\u201d television show, violated provisions of the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination.<\/p>\n
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