The commission referred to the joke as "disgusting and abhorrent."
In his new comedy special, Carr joked about the genocide of the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust, who were targeted for total extermination by the Nazis alongside Jews.
Like many others in the central European country, the community was wiped out in the Holocaust and the site had been left neglected and possibly also damaged.
Within the villa, a 9 meter by 18-meter mosaic, consisting of geometric designs and guilloche patterns has been discovered.
Noomi Rapace told him that she believes she has Roma ancestry and she was emotionally connected to their story. So they changed the Jewish character into a Roma one.
Historians estimate that up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti were sent to death camps and murdered in the Holocaust, alongside Jews and others deemed subhuman by the Nazi regime.
Scores of Roma protested over the measures, which they said were discriminatory because the lockdown, intended to curb the virus' spread, was less strict in other parts of Sofia.
August 2 marks the European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, which commemorates the genocide of half a million Roma people at the hands of the Nazis.
An Italian politician's call for a registry of minority Roma reminds Jews of fascist antisemitism.
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