Justice minister says Roma protest march was illegal

Justice Minister Pavel Blažek has criticized the fact that the Romany protest march in Pardubice on Sunday was held without approval from the local authorities. Around three hundred protesters  gathered in the town to demand increased security for Romanies in the wake of a fight on Saturday night involving 18 people, in which a Romany man was allegedly stabbed by a Ukrainian national. The  police has not confirmed that the attacker was Ukrainian, stating merely that the man detained was a foreign national. The protest march ended peacefully, but Justice Minister Blažek said that such actions could lead to unrest such as we are now seeing in France.