Brenda Brenda:
The Roma are not the easiest, to put it nicely. They consider themselves lawless...
Those shot all had criminal records, and were well known by the police, according to the Czech language article:
http://www.novinky.cz/zahranicni/evropa/270726-vrazdy-romu-v-hurbanovu-maji-nejasny-motiv.html?ref=ostatni-clankyA reporter/editor tried to speak with the family and was "attacked with iron rods..."
My ex worked with gypsies in the Czech Republic and had equal parts optimism and pessimism for that group.
I stepped in to stop some drunken Czechs picking on a gypsy on the pub street in my city there, then a few days later he thanked me at a tram stop and his friend tried to sell me stolen goods...