Compensation? Why are they paid compensation?
Is it because they did not
raise their children as they should have?
We did not even receive
proper education.
If we would have,
maybe we could have succeeded.
But we did not, and with that,
they fucked our entire lives up.
At his recent press conference,
PM Viktor Orbán
called a court decision unjust
that granted compensation
to Roma students
who suffered school segregation for years
in the Gyöngyöspata elementary school.
Well, how's that?
People living in the same community,
in the same village as I do,
who are members of a defining
ethnic group,
are about to receive a significant sum
as compensation
without working for it
in any way whatsoever.
While I'm toiling away all day.
Why do you think
the Prime Minister said that?
No, I have no idea.
I don't think he knows
why the compensation was awarded.
He should have read the file, 
see what it's about,
and what the Curia gave [money] for.
We've been to Gyöngyöspata
several times,
and footage recorded there
clearly shows
that when the children line up for 
the opening ceremony of the school year
Roma classes were made to stand 
on the right side of the rows,
and non-Roma classes were on the left.
Segregation of Roma children
in public education is not unique to Gyöngyöspata,
there have been several lawsuits
on similar grounds.
But the level of segregation
at the Gyöngyöspata school was outstanding:
There were Roma and non-Roma classes,
classrooms of Roma children 
were on the ground floor
while non-Roma kids studied
a floor above.
Roma children were not even
allowed on the top floor,
they were banned from
using the bathrooms there,
while the bathroom meant for them
looked disgusting.
You couldn't flush the toilet,
stuff was smeared
all over the place,
but if we went upstairs
to use the toilets there,
we got yelled at.
Once they sent me home
for going upstairs.
They weren't allowed to use
the swimming pool
and their education in general
was of a much lower standard.
I have finished elementary school,
and we were at 5th grade levels.
And it's not just me,
all the other kids were like that.
Grades 5, 6, and 7 were in the same classroom,
seventh-graders studied 
the same thing as fifth-graders.
How were we supposed to
start a normal life like that?
We saw them going for
swimming classes,
we saw that they could
do all the things,
and we did not receive
the things they did.
But even if we went to the swimming pool,
they would have told us to get out,
because they will get infected.
Who gets infected?
Well, the Hungarian children.
If they go into the water
after we did.
We had to go to school in the afternoon.
So we wouldn't encounter the
"peasant" kids.
They did not like our faces,
that's the short story.
Segregated education 
in the Gyöngyöspata school
has been a common practice
for many years,
as the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights
assessed back in 2011
and ordered the school to
stop this practice.
But the school did not comply,
so a lawsuit was filed,
and the court also found
that the children were unlawfully segregated
and ordered the school
to stop this practice.
But the school did not comply
with the court order either,
after which segregated students 
 filed a lawsuit for compensation.
In the end, the 63 children were awarded 
a 100 million Forints (~€300 000) in damages.
But this money cannot be compared
to the value of our ruined lives.
I wanted to be a policeman,
but they told me that
gypsies can't be policemen.
Who said that?
Well, when I told the principal once,
he replied I'm a gypsy,
I can't be a policeman.
I wanted to study
to be a kindergarten teacher,
but I couldn't, sadly .
Well, it's a really ugly thing
that they segregate...
the Romas...
But a lot of the times, they too...
the kind of upbringing they get...
meaning the situation
at home,
is not as it should be.
Because I go to the shop, 
and to other places
and, well...
They speak  rather rudely to...
to women, mostly.
These big, adolescent boys.
The children were being taken
from the village.
They took them to Gyöngyös to school,
and to other places.
Were there any specific cases?
I don't know what cases
there were,
but for instance,
parents did not want their kids to go to 
 the same school as the local Roma children.
The teachers couldn't handle them.
Wouldn't it have been their job
to not differentiate between Roma and Hungarian kids,
as they are children all the same,
like the Hungarians?
Our ID cards do not say
"Roma citizen."
It says "Hungarian citizen."
We were born here, we are Hungarians 
just as much as they are.
That's what I think.
The court said the issue was
that not only problematic children
were placed in separate classes,
but Romas in general,
only because they were Romas.
Well, they segregated them, well,
of course they segregated them.
They were all together you know,
and they rile each other up.
There at school. And there are parents
who want to take their children
to a school with normal conditions.
What they are saying is that 
parents were taking non-Roma children to Gyöngyös.
Right from the start,
when non-Roma children began kindergarten,
this did  not start in primary school,
they were already going
to different villages.
I don't know for how long,
but the men with the boots
should come out here
to make some order.
Because they were really
getting out of hand here.
The gypsies.
When the Hungarian Guard marched here,
did that improve the situation?
Of course! No such things since.
None.
So they are either afraid
or I don't know.
So there is a really big difference.
There aren't so many loiterers,
and these public workers, they...
They work better.
If I understand it well,
non-Romas are afraid of Romas. Why?
Ask them.
Why they are afraid.
You shouldn't be afraid
when you have nothing to fear.
I mean, a child... 
If I put to children next to each other,
do they know that this one is
not Hungarian, and the other one is a gypsy?
Or the other way around.
How do they learn to be afraid of each other?
If parents do not
raise them that way?
I think they are raised
to avoid being with gypsies.
But there are normal Hungarians
in Gyöngyöspata too,
and then there are some
who are not normal.
Same with gypsies, there are good people,
and bad people too.
