Following the manifestation protesting against systematic abuse in the Bounets neighbourhood, a fight broke out between Rroma and ethnic Bulgarians over loud music, leaving 6 wounded, and two arrested.
Bad.
This week’s news summary from France. Not so much, which is not surprising, as there were other news in the front pages.
In Lille, Rroma are told to leave France and to move to another place, to Vauban; in the North again, a difficult cohabitation between local travellers (i.e. Manouches) and Rroma; and a police action and a tumultuous municipal council in Loos, in the North of France.
Then two articles on schools one about the inclusion of migrants, the other about pollution near a school where Rroma are.
And finally, of course the usual crime stories with a reported increase of break in in the West and pickpockets in the South.
The Appleby Horse Fair is in full swing!
30 years ago, the Swiss government officially acknowledged its involvement in the so-called Kinder der Landstrasse, a program which saw the state take away children from Jenische, the local travellers and place them in homes.
More on the shopkeeper who wants to keep Rroma out of her shop.
SHAME!
Hundreds of people in Botunets, a neighbourhood in the North East of Sofia protested against systematic abuse and discrimination against Rroma.
Germany is investigating pictures taken by Neo Nazis inside Buchenwald.
SHAME
Lots of articles in Switzerland about ca. 350 Rroma from France travelling through Switzerland. And not all good. Rather bad press. All stereotypes are there.
Like in the Nazi days, or like in the Czech Republic, this time in Berlin Neukölln: A shopkeepers puts up a sign against Rroma.
SHAME!!!
The Rroma music festival “Khamoro” just started in Prague.
After the protests regarding the “illegal” gas connection in a Rroma neighbourhood near Tula, the issue seems to have restarted. This time because the houses were scheduled to be demolished because of these illegal connections to the gas network.
In good Russian fashion, there was interior police, riot troops etc…
To be followed.
An article about the “chaos” created by Rroma travellers camping in Western Switzerland for a church meeting. Many of the Rroma travellers here belong to the pentacostal church or to other evangelical churches.
An article about Rroma and higher education. However, saying that Hungary “leads the way” is truly misleading.
Pressure against the Croatian Minister of Culture, Zlatko Hasanbegovic, is increasing. Several international personalities are calling for his resignation, following his statements on Holocaust and his open revisionism concerning the Ustasha in World War Two.
WRITE to the Croatian Embassy in your Country!
An article about the Hungarian collective “Most”, engaging itself for Migrants and Rroma.
Well done!
The centre left candidate to the election of the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Giachetti, said he will aim to integrate the Rroma, should he be elected. This is good. Let’s close the camps and act against the mafia that was running them!
More news this week on Rroma, particularly in the North. First, a story about street view and the Rroma in Lille; then, tensions between Rroma squatting houses and their neighbours in Maubeuges and Roubaix; a camp that will be dismantled, sometimes; near Paris, the story of a school in a caravan for young Rroma children; shots fired at a Rroma camp in the south of France in Montpellier; and finally, a story of thefts perpetrated by young Rroma children.
More on the police action against Rroma who were protesting for the right to stay in Germany.
SHAME
A Rroma association in the UK is giving courses about Rroma and by Rroma with the aim of better understanding this minority.
The EU warned Hungary about the discrimination of Rroma in the country’s school system. De facto, schools are segregated and Rroma are not give a chance to Rroma. This segregation is encouraged at top level, for example by the Minister of Human Resources, Zoltan Balog.
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