A German priest, Arnold Fortuin, is being remembered by the Sinti community. During the Nazi times in Germany he protected many Sinti.
– Illingen erinnert sich an Arnold Fortuin. 21.08.2018. https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/neunkirchen/illingen/illingen-erinnert-sich-an-arnold-fortuin_aid-30087313 [link-preview url=”https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/neunkirchen/illingen/illingen-erinnert-sich-an-arnold-fortuin_aid-30087313″]
A long article in the New York Times on a con-woman and a tale of deception and violence. What is bad is that the woman in question is a Kalderaškinja who seems to have bene adept at her game.
Not the best advertising …
– A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood. In: The New York Times. 21.08.2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/a-new-wife-a-secret-past.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/a-new-wife-a-secret-past.html”]
An article about the theatre troupe “Giuvlipen” and one of their plays.
– Romania’s Roma rise up with revolutionary theatre. In: Thomson Reuters Trust. 17.08.2018. http://news.trust.org/item/20170817110826-2loti/ [link-preview url=”http://news.trust.org/item/20170817110826-2loti/”]
In Mukachevo, Roma are given food that is supposed to stop or prevent tuberculosis. Really??? This is nuts, especially since tuberculosis in those countries are often resitant to all antibiotics.
– На Мукачівщині ромів годують їжею, яка пригнічує туберкульозну паличку (ВІДЕО). In: ZAK Depo. 14.08.2018. https://zak.depo.ua/ukr/zak/na-mukachivschini-romiv-goduyut-yizheyu-yaka-prignichuye-tuberkuloznu-palichku-video-20180814821684 [link-preview url=”https://zak.depo.ua/ukr/zak/na-mukachivschini-romiv-goduyut-yizheyu-yaka-prignichuye-tuberkuloznu-palichku-video-20180814821684″]
A simple argument between children at a pool in the Czech Republic turned into a brawl between Roma and Gadže. Here’s the view from the Romni whose child was involved in the initial dispute.
– Czech media, police accuse Romani family of inciting brawl with non-Roma at children’s pool, Romea.cz first to report the Romani mother’s testimony. In: Romea. 13.08.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-media-police-accuse-romani-family-of-inciting-brawl-with-non-roma-at-children-s-pool-romea-cz-first-to-report-the [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-media-police-accuse-romani-family-of-inciting-brawl-with-non-roma-at-children-s-pool-romea-cz-first-to-report-the”]
The city of Jelšava, in Central Slovakia has a high proportion of Roma, according to the latest census. But according to the police and residents, the city doesn’t have any real problems with Roma. This is good for a change.
– Mesto Jelšava má najvyšší podiel Rómov, výrazné problémy s nimi nie sú. In: Hlavne Spravy. 18.08.2018. https://www.hlavnespravy.sk/mesto-jelsava-ma-najvyssi-podiel-romov-vyrazne-problemy-s-nimi-nie-su/1495468# [link-preview url=”https://www.hlavnespravy.sk/mesto-jelsava-ma-najvyssi-podiel-romov-vyrazne-problemy-s-nimi-nie-su/1495468#”]
An exhibition on the fight for civil rights of Sinti and Roma is currently open in Göttingen, Germany.
– Ausstellung zu Kampf um die Bürgerrechte von Sinti und Roma. In: Göttinger Tagblatt. 19.08.2018. http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Die-Region/Goettingen/Ausstellung-zu-Sinti-und-Roma-in-der-BBS-Goettingen [link-preview url=”http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Die-Region/Goettingen/Ausstellung-zu-Sinti-und-Roma-in-der-BBS-Goettingen”]
A young researcher from Göttingen in Germany has investigated the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism and comes out with a scathing review, saying Switzerland turns a blind eye on institutional racism and that the commission is actually fuelling it.
– Ist die Schweiz blind für Behörden-Rassismus? Das behauptet zumindest diese Forscherin. In: Watson. 19.08.2018. https://www.watson.ch/!519782544 [link-preview url=”https://www.watson.ch/!519782544″]
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 [link-preview url=”https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/plainte-pour-discrimination-raciale-rejetée-à-fribourg/44333494″]
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 [link-preview url=”https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/total-cost-every-traveller-camp-15033513″]
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 [link-preview url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/world/europe/catalan-gypsies-perpignan-france.html”]
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 [link-preview url=”https://actu.fr/hauts-de-france/lille_59350/les-roms-carrefour-pasteur-lille-expulses-lundi_18212739.html “]
In Satu Mare, Roma activists donated blood and with the earned money, bought food and other necessities for a very poor family.
– FOTOGALERIE. Familie săracă lipită pământului, ajutată de rromi!. In: Presasm. 14.08.2018. https://www.presasm.ro/fotogalerie-familie-saraca-lipita-pamantului-ajutata-de-rromi/ [link-preview url=”https://www.presasm.ro/fotogalerie-familie-saraca-lipita-pamantului-ajutata-de-rromi/”]
This kind of news is really not positive. Focus making a reportage on Plovdiv, telling that a part of the town is now called “Dortmund”. So far nothing bad, but they put it in relation to the current polemic around children social help that is supposedly abused.
How about saying that many Roma from Plovdiv actually go and work in Germany …
– Bulgarischer Stadtteil wird “Dortmund” genannt: Welche Ausländer wie viel Kindergeld beziehen. In: Focus. 13.08.2018. https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/streit-um-staatliche-unterstuetzung-bulgarischer-stadtteil-wird-dortmund-genannt-welche-auslaender-wie-viel-kindergeld-beziehen_id_9410329.html [link-preview url=”https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/streit-um-staatliche-unterstuetzung-bulgarischer-stadtteil-wird-dortmund-genannt-welche-auslaender-wie-viel-kindergeld-beziehen_id_9410329.html”]
Alone the title of the paper “Deutsche Stimme” [German Voice] already gives the colour. But the text on the “problems” of Roma and on the measures that they are implicitly advocating is really bad.
– Sachsen-Anhalt: Klartext über Probleme mit den “Sinti und Roma”. In: Deutsche Stimme. 16.08.2018. https://deutsche-stimme.de/2018/08/17/sachsen-anhalt-klartext-ueber-probleme-mit-den-sinti-und-roma/ [link-preview url=”https://deutsche-stimme.de/2018/08/17/sachsen-anhalt-klartext-ueber-probleme-mit-den-sinti-und-roma/”]
During the night of the 29th of July, a shooting wounding 7 people was attributed by several newspapers to Roma travellers.
It turns out this was absolutely not the case. A very good analysis of the true facts.
– Tirs de Beaune : comment une rumeur a accusé à tort les gens du voyage. In: Le Monde. 16.08.2018. https://abonnes.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/08/16/tirs-de-beaune-comment-une-rumeur-a-accuse-a-tort-les-gens-du-voyage_5343167_4355770.html#xtor=AL-32280270? [link-preview url=”https://abonnes.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/08/16/tirs-de-beaune-comment-une-rumeur-a-accuse-a-tort-les-gens-du-voyage_5343167_4355770.html#xtor=AL-32280270?”]
A Canadian lawyer successfully prevented the extradition of his Romanian client on the grounds that he is Rom and that his rights would not be ensured in Romania.
This is good in itself.
What is bad is that the Rom was involved in a fraud with trading companies in the early 2000’s.
– Roma man allowed to stay in Canada, says federal AG. In: Canadian Lawyer. 13.08.2018. https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/author/gabrielle-giroday/roma-man-allowed-to-stay-in-canada-says-federal-ag-16083/ [link-preview url=”https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/author/gabrielle-giroday/roma-man-allowed-to-stay-in-canada-says-federal-ag-16083/”]
A really shocking article from Bosnia. Residents from Mostar are protesting because “many” Roma are coming to Mostar, are stealing, sexually harassing women, burning tires, and generally attacking inhabitants.
Well … Let’s not forget that these brave Bosnians were all in agreement to ethnically cleanse Roma out of their respective regions. As a result, they effectively deprived most Roma of their homes and of a living.
– Med staroselci vre: »Izpostavljeni smo krajam, spolnim nadlegovanjem ter fizičnim napadom Romov«. In: Democracija. 15.08.2018. http://www.demokracija.si/tujina/v-mostarskemu-naselju-vre-izpostavljeni-smo-krajam-spolnim-nadlegovanjem-ter-fizicnim-napadom-romov.html [link-preview url=”http://www.demokracija.si/tujina/v-mostarskemu-naselju-vre-izpostavljeni-smo-krajam-spolnim-nadlegovanjem-ter-fizicnim-napadom-romov.html”]
Recent statistics show that employment numbers have improved for Roma in Slovakia but that Roma generally lag behind the rest of the population.
– Štyri grafy o zamestnanosti Rómov. In: Aktuality. 16.08.2018. https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/615453/styri-grafy-o-zamestnanosti-romov/
– Zamestnanosť Rómov na Slovensku výrazne zaostáva, analytici hovoria o nízkej úrovni vzdelania. In: Web Noviny. 16.08.2018. https://www.webnoviny.sk/zamestnanost-romov-na-slovensku-vyrazne-zaostava-analytici-hovoria-o-nizkej-urovni-vzdelania/
– Zamestnanosť Rómov na Slovensku. Na tieto čísla sa dobre nepozerá. In: Parlamentnelisty. 16.08.2018. https://www.parlamentnelisty.sk/arena/monitor/Zamestnanost-Romov-na-Slovensku-Na-tieto-cisla-sa-dobre-nepozera-303794 [link-preview url=”https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/615453/styri-grafy-o-zamestnanosti-romov/ “]
Dominik Lakatoš, a Rom and a hockey player was just selected to the Czech national team. Good for him.
– Radan Lenc a Dominik Lakatoš v prvním reprezentačním výběru trenéra Říhy! In: HCBT. 13.08.2018. https://hcbilitygri.cz/clanek.asp?id=Radan-Lenc-a-Dominik-Lakatos-v-prvnim-reprezentacnim-vyberu-trenera-Rihy-12846
– Fore Reference: Česko má prvního Roma v hokejové reprezentaci! Kde se tam vzal a kdo to je? In: Express. 13.12.2015. https://www.expres.cz/prvni-rom-v-hokejove-reprezentaci-d5f-/sport.aspx?c=A151230_140831_dx-sport_mzk [link-preview url=”https://hcbilitygri.cz/clanek.asp?id=Radan-Lenc-a-Dominik-Lakatos-v-prvnim-reprezentacnim-vyberu-trenera-Rihy-12846 “]
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