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In connection with Mahiliou traffic police lieutenant Yevgeny Patapovich's tragic death, mass arrests of the Roma (Romani citizens) took place in the cities of Belarus. Dozens of people were kept in places of restriction of freedom even after the Investigative Committee called the "abduction" of the traffic police inspector by "three gypsies in a Volga" a non-priority version. A number of the detainees testified about humiliation and torture by the police, while the head of the Roma diaspora in Belarus, Aleh Kazlouski, compared the actions of the authorities with the raids against Roma and Jews under Hitler.

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