Jake Bowers puts a strong case for judging this case on the facts, not on prejudice.
The Roma blogger Pipopotamus and the Romani novelist Louise Doughty have also made sensible contributions to the debate.
Filiip Borev (Pipopotamus) has also written an article in the Guardian.
Nathalie Savaricas gives a good background account in the Independent Old attitudes resurface in Greece: inside the Roma camp where Maria the ‘blonde angel’ lived
Meanwhile in Ireland…