An article about the four new openly Roma Members of Parliament in Spain.
Very few news on Roma this week in France (always a good thing). First, a report on racism against Roma in France and worrying statistics. A theatre play in the South of France. A comic strip on an Ursari family who comes to France. More political, Roma in Ivry, near Paris, are protesting in front of the Prefecture. And finally, a clean-up operation on the site of a former Roma camp near Paris.
The Italian press is full of the story of an altercation of a Serbian footballer Sinisa Mihajlovic who clashed with the Italian police after being insulted as a “Gypsy” …
An article that can only be qualified as trash on witches in Romania – qualified as often being “gitanes”.
The endless story of the efforts by the municipality of Limanowa in Poland to evict Roma from the town and re-settle them outside of it has finally come to an end. A court has ruled that the eviction is no acceptable.
The Italian justice is now tackling the anti-Roma riots that took place recently in Rome.
May 16th market the 75th anniversary of the Roma Uprising in Auschwitz.
May the victims rest in peace.
Another photographer on marginalised Roma communities in Slovakia.
A far-right new paramilitary movement was launched in Hungary.
Scary.
An essay on people’s views of what a Rom should look like.
Salvini conceded that 17 people were cited for anti-Roma protests, and stated he would not tolerate violence.
Well…
The analogy between fascism and Salvini’s stance on Roma.
A new book is documenting the structural racism faced by Roma in Europe.
An article on Roma in Bulgaria and how they are being stigmatised in the country. It is always their fault …
An essay on the Slovak Integration plans for Roma called Roma 2020. The “Strategy for Roma Integration by 2020” seeks to address the problems of all Roma, ie. Roma living in small communities inside towns and villages as well as Roma outside villages in settlements. In its broad sense, this “strategy” is a comprehensive strategy.
International experts are discussing innovative education of Roma children in Bratislava.
A nice reportage from the Zeit – not recent but sill very actual.
Apart from the news from Marseilles (see other post on France), news are like always in France: A camp evacuated in Brunoy, near Paris; Montreuil, where the people who were forced out of the camp still haven’t been re-lodged; in Marseilles, where, besides the headlines of the attack, Rroma were also expelled from a camp just before school begin; in Montpellier, where a fire was started in a camp – again; and in the north, in Roubaix, where people take the opportunity of a Rroma camp to dump toxic waste; in Maubeuge, the story of a part of town being reconstructed (after the eviction of Rroma); and finally in Lille, were volunteers do activities with Rroma children.
A camp with nearly 160 Rroma in Marseilles was attacked with Molotov Cocktails and pump guns. 7 people landed in hospital, three persons were arrested. There seems to have been an altercation between the Rroma and some local youths, although at this stage nothing is clear.
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