Franziska Giffey bei der Vorstellung des Zukunftsprogramms Neustart Berlin auf der Dachterasse des Berliner Weekend Clubs im Rahmen der Sommertour mit Franziska Giffey anlässlich des Bundestagswahlkampf der SPD. / Franziska Giffey at the presentation of the future program Neustart Berlin on the roof terrace of the Berlin Weekend Club as part of the summer tour with Franziska Giffey on the occasion of the Bundestag election campaign of the SPD. snapshot-photography/F.Boillot *** Franziska Giffey at the presentation of the future program Neustart Berlin on the roof terrace of the Berlin Weekend Club as part of the summer tour with Franziska Giffey on the occasion of the Bundestag election campaign of the SPD snapshot photography F Boillo

Berlin’s governing mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) wants to fight hatred of Sinti and Roma just as much as hatred of Jews. “It is our duty to name any discriminatory behavior and to fight discrimination. That’s why we have to fight antigypsyism just as much as antisemitism,” says Giffey on the International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of Sinti and Roma.

This has been celebrated on August 2 since 2015 because more than 4,000 Sinti and Roma were killed on August 2 and 3, 1944 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

“The inhuman Nazi regime pursued the extermination of numerous minorities,” said Giffey. This also included Sinti and Roma. “Humiliation, exclusion and hatred have always been signs of murder,” said the SPD politician.

Giffey had already campaigned strongly against so-called slums in the district when she was Neukölln district mayor. Sinti and Roma in particular are often exploited there.