The baron is dead, long live the baron!

Actually, not even a baron, but a real "king". Gypsy "King" of Romania Florian Cioaba. He died a week ago, in the prime of his “monarchy,” so to speak, at the age of 59.

Under the cut of a photo of a gypsy funeral ...

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1. The figure was really large-scale. He became famous, for example, declaring the idea of a "Gypsy European Parliament" or trying to get from Strasbourg the right to marry his subjects from childhood. Although, for some reason, the European bureaucrats did not like the initiatives, so they still rested on developing “gypsy parliamentarism” and allowing children to marry. But as a consolation, they authorized the “monarch” to establish their own “gypsy court” in Romania.

2. Gypsy funerals, and even "on the highest level", a separate topic. It's hard to describe in words. As far as we understand, they are trying to create the most familiar and comfortable environment for the deceased, it looks something like this ...

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5. In this case, everything was as it should be - delegations of gypsy communities from all over the world, a kilometer-long procession, hordes of security guards and the inconsolable President of the country himself. Covered by the world's leading news agencies.

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7. In what interiors the illustrious deceased was then laid down is silent, but judging by the photo from the ceremony, he went there in an unusually exclusive device, with complex electronic filling and air conditioning.

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