Activists against pig farm at Lety call on EU to stop subsidizing it

Activists striving for the removal of a pig farm at Lety, south Bohemia, built on the site of a former Romany internment camp, have appealed on the EU to stop subsidizing the farm. Miroslav Brož, from the civic association Konexe, said this would be a simple solution to a drawn-out problem that had been an embarrassment to the country for years. Brož claims that without EU funding the farm would soon be forced into bankruptcy. Several Czech governments pledged to remove the pig farm from Lety, but failed to find money for a buyout. Some 1,300 Czech Romanies passed through the camp between 1940 and 1943; round 330 of them died there, while another 500 were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.