Daily Archives: March 26, 2023

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria, the State, and Mahala

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The chief prosecutor of the Plovdiv Region, in South Eastern Bulgaria ordered garbage containers to be placed in the Roma neighbourhood of Stolipinovo, one of the largest Mahala in the country. They inspected the neighbourhood and found numerous illegal landfills in the area.

By order of the District Prosecutor’s Office the municipality has been notified to take immediate action and prepare a plan with a view to ensuring normal living conditions in the neighbourhood.

France News Western Europe

France: New Book

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The so-called “Hungarian” Roma have lived in France since the end of the 19th century. From the article, it is not clear from which group they are, but they are most probably Lovara.

By classifying them as “gens du voyage” as soon as they continue to circulate in caravans, the administration obliges them to live in “reception areas” often located near polluted industrial areas. Through a caravan ethnography, the anthropologist Lise Foisneau describes their attachment to places, the invisible traumas of the Second World War, the transmission of memory. But also the police and administrative hunt, and the search for places to stop. Despite the persecutions of the 20th century and the increasing privatization of public space, these companies have been constantly reconfiguring their worlds for 150 years. Lise Foisneau’s book Kumpania: living and resisting in gadjo country describes its flesh and vivacity.

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More news this week in France about Roma. The Abbé Pierre Foundation and the Romeurope National Human Rights Collective lodged a complaint with the public prosecutor following the eviction of a shantytown occupied by Roma in Villeron (Val-d’Oise), on February 5, 2023. It is in addition to the five others already submitted by three members of the Roma community, the association La Voix des Rroms and the Mrap.

In Lyon, around 20 Roma were expulsed. In Aix, a fire broke out in a Roma camp. In Marseilles, another camp is threatened with closure. And finally, three Romnja are arrested in Western France for having stolen elderly people.

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