Discrimination, bullying at school, and sometimes deadly violence against gays are "widespread throughout the EU," the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights complained in a new report Tuesday.

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“Many LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) persons experience discrimination, bullying and harassment. There have been physical attacks and even deadly assaults,” in some countries, said the agency’s director Morten Kjaerum.

“These are alarming signals in an EU that prides itself on its principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination,” he added.

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