A militant young skinhead, being escorted to the court by a Czech prison warder, repeatedly tried to attack the British cameraman filming what was going on. The prison escort remained inactive during his attacks. Needless to say, his widow was utterly devastated by the degrading verdict of the court. The film eloquently recorded her anguish. Anyway, I could not leave.
Many Romani children end up in Czech special schools for the mentally retarded.
It is often argued that it is only unteachable children who are transferred, or those children who cannot speak Czech well. It was interesting to note that all the Roma, appearing in the film, spoke fluent, native Czech and obviously regarded themselves as members of the Czech nation - they were seriously offended that the Czech nation rejected them. The film featured a couple of Roma boys, transferred to special schools for the mentally retarded, of about 10 to 12 years of age, who both seemed very agile mentally and spoke perfect Czech. Harrowingly, one of the boys had hoped to become a computer programmer and was worried that since he had been transferred to a school for mentally retarded children, he could now only hope to become something more menial, like a bricklayer. He argued that he was as good academically as his white pal in the normal school, from which he had been moved, but the teacher was biased against him because he was black.