The complaint was made after Basescu said that the Roma are organized into clans and that they are protected by politicians and even by state institutions.
"The President's speech is very dangerous because he presents the Roma as criminals, the representatives of Romani Criss organization say. (...) For the President of Romania, the Roma are filthy, they are beggars, criminals and have too many children. (...) The fact that these statements are repeated does not make them less serious, on the contrary it make them worse, because he is consciously fueling hatred against the Roma ", the organization reports.