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Slovenia: Manifestations

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Slovenia: Manifestations

Two articles in the French press about the manifestations and fall out after a man was killed after being aggressed by Roma in Novo Mesto.

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Many articles about Roma this week in France.  Four camps in Hellemes, in the North of France will be dismantled shortly. One camp in Annecy in the French alps will also be closed in November. A large camp that exists since 5 years will be closed in Marseille. In the same city afire broke out in another Roma camp. Near Paris, another camp is slated for closure. In Annecy, tensions are on the rise between residents and Roma from a nearby camp.

Evacuation d’un camp de roms installé près des Espaces V à Villepinte. In: Aulnay Libre. 28.10.2025. https://www.aulnaylibre.com/2025/10/evacuation-d-un-camp-de-roms-installe-pres-des-espaces-v-a-villepinte.html

News Eastern Europe Poland

All Saints Day in Poland

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All Saints Day in Poland

A Polish article on all saints day customs among Polish Roma. Roma celebrate All Saints’ Day differently from Poles, focusing mainly on gatherings at gravesides. “We drink, play music, sing, talk, and tell stories about our deceased loved ones,” Bogdan Trojanek, a Roma singer, leader, and founder of the band Terne Roma told journalists.

Italy News Western Europe

Rome, Roma, and Threats

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Rome, Roma, and Threats

Last October, two villas illegally built by a family involved in various criminal activities were destroyed in Via Arzachena, in the Rocca Cencia area of greater Rome.

Now, Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri is being threatened on social media: A young man in a black overall holding a submachine gun: “This is for you, Mayor, and for your family. Just as you’ve already destroyed our house, I’ll destroy yours; time will tell. The State doesn’t scare me.”

The threats on social media against Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri, along with the Facebook post since deleted, were made by Silvio Hilicic, nicknamed “Silvio Silvietto,” a member of the Komarov-Hilicic family.

The Italian press qualifies them as Sinti, which seems dubious.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Fake

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Fake

The allegations of an 11 years old gadži whereby she had been brutally aggressed by Roma prompted a wave of racism against Roma.

She lied …

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Condolences

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Condolences

Roma expressed solidarity and condolences at a rally in Črnomelj: We are not all the same. They emphasized that this was not a protest, but an expression of solidarity and condolences. They also pointed out the growing intolerance towards Roma and emphasized that not all Roma are the same.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Rifts in the Community

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Rifts in the Community

A talk with Haris Tahirović, journalist and president of the Roma association Anglunipe and president of the Roma Community Association, which is called Umbrella, about the situation of the Roma in Slovenia and we tried to answer the question of what was the cause of the tragic event in Novo mesto.

The 2007 Roma Community Act has caused considerable debate and opposition. One of the key complaints, explains Tahirović, is that it separates Roma into autochthonous and non-autochthonous, which many believe is discriminatory and causes additional divisions within an already marginalized community. Another problem is the uneven implementation of national strategies and measures. Some measures have been implemented only on paper, without any real impact on the lives of Roma.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Award

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Award

This year’s Prize of the Museum of Romani Culture went to activist Josef Miker from Teplice. He will receive the award for his lifelong fight against hatred and racism. He was one of those who significantly contributed to the demolition of the pig farm in Lety near Písek on the site of a former concentration camp. In the community where he lives, he helps Romani youth, poor people and the homeless.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Migration?

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Migration?

Recent social media reports stated that hundred if not thousands of Roma from the Lunik IX housing estate in Košice, a notorious Roma neighbourhood, were to relocate to Trebišov. Mayor Marek Čižmár rejected these reports as nonsense: “It’s just a godforsaken lie and deception, because no such relocation has taken place, is not taking place and will not take place.”

According to the mayor, this is a form of election campaign that has been used in the past.

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Integration of Roma

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Integration of Roma

In response to the Novo Mesto tragedy, the Human Rights Ombudsman strongly condemned all violence. According to the Ombudsman, the state has failed to integrate the Roma. He warned that the right to security is one of the fundamental pillars of trust in the rule of law, and added that the incident reveals deeper social and systemic problems.

“The outbreaks of violence are a reflection of systemic shortcomings,” it is written on the Ombudsman’s website. They also recalled that the Ombudsman has been warning for many years about the lack of sustainable and inclusive measures, ghettoization, spatial and social segregation, and unequal opportunities that deepen differences, strengthen mistrust, and prevent coexistence.

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Horvath Muc on the recent death

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Horvath Muc on the recent death

The entire Roma community, like every member of the Roma community of southeastern Slovenia, must do everything to stop the criminal acts of individual Roma immediately, wrote the president of the Roma Community Council of the Republic of Slovenia Jožek Horvat Muc in a message to the mayor of Novo Mesto, Gregor Macedoni.

On behalf of the Roma Community Council and on his own behalf, Horvat Muc expressed his sincere condolences to the family and relatives of the deceased and condemned “all acts of violence and gross violations of security and endangering the life of every citizen”.

The entire Roma community and every individual within the Roma community in the area of ​​southeastern Slovenia must, in his belief, be aware that everything must be done to stop the criminal acts of individual Roma immediately.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Conference on the Genocide

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Conference on the Genocide

Preserving the memories of the survivors and survivors of the genocide of the Roma during Holocaust and passing them on to future generations was the main topic of the three-day Czech-German conference, which took place at the Straka Academy and was dedicated to the memory of the murdered Roma and Sinti during World War II. The conference was organized by the Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.

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Slovenia: Again

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Slovenia: Again

Bad news. According to the news, a gang of Roma in Novo Mesto., Slovenia, beat up a father who defended his son, he died in hospital.

All articles say there is a problem with Roma violence, criminality, and that the government doesn’t do anything. All Roma are being put in this category, regardless. This is bad.

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungarian Segregation

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Hungarian Segregation

An article on a new Hungarian law and its application that we have already mentioned. Mezokeresztes was the first municipality in the country to implement the so-called Local Identity Preservation Act, passed by Parliament in June, which allows municipalities to screen people who settle there.

The Mezokeresztes municipality purchased houses, mostly belonging to Roma, on the grounds that they were unsanitary and demolished them.

Greece News Western Europe

TikTok and Greek Roma

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TikTok and Greek Roma

An article about Roma who publish on TikTok, with a huge success and millions of views. But behind this, the reality is different and stereotypes are prevalent in Greece.

The article says: On the Greek social network TikTok, catchy Gypsy songs, kitschy weddings, and passionate dancing all night long have gone viral. Stef Tony, a Roma artist from Menidi, a suburb of Athens, performs in the middle of Roma camps or promotes singers from his community. Musician Stathis Xenos is a hit on the network with his song “Eimai Roma. Mia tzigana mou exei parei ta miala” (“I am Roma. A Gypsy woman made me crazy with love”), which has been taken up by thousands of users.

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

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More news this week. The question of the relocation of the inhabitants of one of the largest Roma settlement in France near Nantes, is still open. In a small commune in Britanny, the mayor and the village is involved in finding decent lodging solutions for the Roma living in a camp there. In the South, the new prefect of the region is multiplying expulsions of Roma. The story of a student who was attacked by Roma in Grenoble to steal his mobile. The main perpetrator apparently fled France to Romania. Finally, the movie “A Bras Ouverts”, heavily criticised and rightly so for its pandering of racist stereotypes is apparently having a huge success on Netflix in France.

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