Mladá Fronta DNES, August 4, 2009

Roma reality show ends in Prague

Published on 4 August 2009
Mladá Fronta DNES, August 4, 2009

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The front page of Mladá Fronta DNES leadswith news of "Solemn mourning" in the streets of Prague. Ion Miclescu, the eldest son of king Robinson Dimofte, who rules the Romanian Roma community, died on 3 August, after two weeks spent in a coma in hospital in the Czech capital. The fate of the young man, who was shortly to take the title of king, had been hanging in the balance following a lake swimming accident. The media took up the story when dozens of his extended family came from Romania, Latvia, France and Germany to camp in front of the hospital in downtown Prague. "Our so-called advanced society was fascinated by this tragedy and the observation of the intimate pain of bereavement. Now the reality show is over," remarksAndrea Bartošová in her blog on the MF DNES website.

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