Weltwoche picture of Roma boy continues to cause a stir
Last week, the photo of the Roma boy on the front page of *Die Weltwoche* caused an international stir. The boy’s father is now considering legal action.
The boy is called Mentor M. This is shown by research of the Sunday newspaper. The 8-year-old lives together with his parents and two sisters in a hut in the illegal Roma settlement Ali Ibra in the Kosovar city of Gjakova. They are being cared for on site by Caritas Switzerland.
The project manager on site, Vildane Minci, visited the family on Saturday afternoon. She said that they were deeply affected and angry about the reporting in Weltwoche. The parents were able to read the article on the Internet with the help of a German-speaking cousin. Now the father is afraid that his son could be stigmatized at school. He is considering legal action against Weltwoche, the Sunday newspaper adds. The pistol in the picture is only a toy weapon.
