Wow. That is very interesting!
For some reason, I can't edit properly on the phone, so I had to post again. Buuut... the reason why some of the slums are relatively safe is because most of the 'pros' are 'working in the west, so to speak. Most places got way more dangerous in spring 2020, as those returned home en masse. We're talking streer fights erupting,, fights with police etc.
This one's from a street fight in 2018, but you can imagine how bad it can get
However , while Lunik9 may be the largest or most notorious , one of the worst or the most dangerous in Europe is probably Pata Rat, basically a shantytown in Transylvania. There's some Romanian language and subtitles too, but he also speaks a lot in English. Anyhow, there are english subtitles and you can see the landscape
But this is mostly a case where they scream that they're just poor victims of the system, while the reality is more disturbing. Police doesn't go there, and you won't see much independent vlogging about it because they rarely let outsiders in, especially if they don't agree to tow the official line, since the place is run by the gipsy mafia. It is more like a self-governing Gipsystan with a population of around a few thousand. Went in there once, years ago with a christian NGO (I guess I'm agnostic or atheist, but my ex had converted and she was participating) and some of the advice before going in was 'no photos', 'don't piss them off under any circumstance' and 'don't try to escape on foot, stick together if there's trouble'. So, as we drove there, I noticed a bunch of glitzy SUVs, BMW and Merc started tailing as we got close.
Now , that I think of it, there was a bearded driver, so I guess it might have even been the guy in the video. I initially thought they were cars of the Beard Brothers, an unafilliated NGO that also had actions there, so I was glad that we had the cavarly coming with us, so to speak. Pucker factor went through the roof when I realised they were the mob. So, once we arrived, everyone gathered along an old dude who was the 'chieftain' baclk then, and, like good christians, they immediately started taking pics despite being told expressly not to. But we soon realised the guys stalking us in the expensive cars only cared about us not seeing some of the stuff there, or at the very least not photographjng some buildings or cars, as well as some people. Turns out, being lawless, the place was being used to grow weed, some of the inhabitants were wanted fugitives etc. Perhaps even slavery happened there, as it wouldn't be the first documented case in such a community.. The people in the NGO even admitted that they accidentally saw some 'totally not ok' stuff, with one having wrecked his car's suspension in an acute case of having to get the hell out of dodge asap. So, maybe in all these years even that guy changed, but I'm still not sure people aren't getting trafficked and/or murdered for organs there. It's very easy to accuse someone of hypocrisy by pretending to be all christian etc yet they stay silent about a lot of stuff that happens there
So, yes, what happened to them in 2010 was definitely wrong, it was racial segregation of the kind only the communist regime used to do. Unfortunately, Eastern Europe is deeply racist, especially towards them,, and that kind of move tends to win mandates .But I'm not 100% sure they were doing very well in those houses even before they got evicted, nor if they were the true owners there, as they have a tendency to squat and claim houses they don't own. I'm not being racist, actually grew up next to some houses of traditional ethnic gypsies until I was 6 years old, so my play buddies were mostly gypsies, and they were quite fine people, as I remember, clean and with very low risk of shenanigans. Sure, ethnically different , clothes and all, but otherwise harmless. But we're nowadays witnessing a sort of ' stunted generation', with high illiteracy rates and few usable skills except violence and crime. One of the few things that were good during communism was that any kind of social aid etc was conditioned on having your kids go to school. That stopped in the 90's, so most kids were trained to steal and/or beg and never went to school.