Lukáš Novák, Silvia Moravčíková, and their colleagues guide victims through filing police complaints and navigating legal proceedings, while also providing social and psychological support.
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A woman is followed and harassed at a tram stop. Another is attacked after a stranger hears her speaking a foreign language. A man is knocked to the ground at a petrol station at night while his attackers shout xenophobic insults.
For foreigners in Slovakia who experience violence, threats or harassment because of who they are, what happens next can be almost as difficult to navigate as the incident itself.
Should they go to the police? What if they do not speak Slovak? What if they have no evidence? What if the police do not consider what happened serious enough to be a crime? And if they are frightened of reporting it at all, is there somewhere else they can go?
