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Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė on Friday met with Vilnius Mayor Valdas Benkunskas and Police Commissioner General Renatas Požėla. Afterwards, the minister announced that more security cameras would be installed in Vilnius as a crime prevention measure, even though the situation with crime h...
The City Council of Vilnius approved a Roma integration plan which envisages breaking up the Roma settlement on the outskirts of the Lithuanian capital and resettling its residents in other parts of the town.
Authorities are to tear down illegally erected structures in Vilnius Roma settlement alongside measures to integrate members of the Roma community, Vilnius Deputy Mayor Gintautas Paluckas has said, adding that the demolition will start as soon as a family occupying the building moves out.
The Naujas Gyvenimas addiction rehabilitation centre and the Vilnius Roma settlement's community have organised a demonstration to draw the government and public's attention to the drug sales plaguing the community and to invite addiction sufferers in for treatment.
Vilnius' city government is planning to create a separate list for Roma people applying for social housing in order to move out of the Roma settlement on the edge of Vilnius.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that problems related to the Roma settlement in Vilnius cannot be solved only by police efforts, and a complex approach is needed because of the social nature of the problems.
