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Switzerland: Lost …

August 19, 2018 Published by: RF

A judge in Fribourg (Switzerland) dismissed the complaint against racism that was lodged against 5 professional associations (three from Fribourg, two overall from Switzerland) who had advertised last year in the papers against giving work to Travellers and Roma. In these pamphlets, travellers and Roma were accused of shoddy work and practises, if not of outright fraud.
This highlights the difficulty in Switzerland to win such cases.

– Plainte pour discrimination raciale rejetée à Fribourg. In: Swissinfo. 17.08.2018. https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/plainte-pour-discrimination-raciale-rejetée-à-fribourg/44333494

News Western Europe United Kingdom

Solihull and Travellers

August 19, 2018 Published by: RF

The town of Solihull, near Birmingham (UK), has published the costs of clean-up of travellers camps on the commune in the last two years. Not pretty. Bad to flout the costs, allowing the press to seize the opportunity to bash travellers, but also bad that such high costs are needed in the first place.
A better solution needs to be found.

– The total cost of every traveller camp clean-up in Solihull revealed. In: The Birmingham Mail. 18.08.2018. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/total-cost-every-traveller-camp-15033513

France News Western Europe

Perpignan and Roma

August 19, 2018 Published by: RF

An interesting reportage showing that the French Gitans – Catalan Roma in this case are being quietly expulsed from the parts of the town where they have lived for a very long time. This is definitively not advertised in France …

– Catalan Gypsies, Unique and Embattled, Resist as Homes Are Reduced to Rubble. In: The New York Times. 18.08.2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/world/europe/catalan-gypsies-perpignan-france.html

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

August 19, 2018 Published by: RF

Not that many news on Roma in France this week. Probably not because of a change of policies, rather still due to a summer pause in the press …
A camp in Lille will be closed on Monday, leaving 134 people without shelter. In Saint Denis, near Paris, a more constructive approach is being taken: Integration and education. And finally in Strasbourg, a squat was closed too.

– Les Roms du carrefour Pasteur à Lille expulsés lundi. In: Actu.fr. 18.08.2018. https://actu.fr/hauts-de-france/lille_59350/les-roms-carrefour-pasteur-lille-expulses-lundi_18212739.html
– Le camp rom du carrefour Pasteur de Lille sera évacué ce lundi. In: La Voix du Nord. 18.08.2018. http://lavdn.lavoixdunord.fr/433921/article/2018-08-18/le-camp-rom-du-carrefour-pasteur-de-lille-sera-evacue-ce-lundi
– A Lille, les Roms du Pont Pasteur expulsés lundi. In: France Bleu. 17.08.2018. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/a-lille-les-roms-du-pont-pasteur-expulses-lundi-1534517062
– Un hébergement qui “change la vie” pour des familles Roms de Saint-Denis. In: France Bleu. 19.08.2018. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/un-hebergement-qui-change-la-vie-pour-des-familles-roms-de-saint-denis-1531933218
– Le bidonville du square du Neuhof démantelé, la situation des migrants traitée au cas par cas. In: Rue89 Strasbourg. 17.08.2018. https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/situation-migrants-camp-square-neuhof-140863