Another case of different treatment of Roma refugees from the Ukraine in Germany. This time, in Bielefeld, where the housing where Roma were put definitively was not up to standards.
Bruises on the face, swollen eye, scared and crying children. A video is being spread on social networks among Roma in Romania. A 37-year-old Rom from Piatra Neamt north of Bucharest was beaten by police. The reason was that he refused to provide an ID when the taxi in which he was driving as a passenger was stopped. Information from the Romanian newspaper Libertatea was published by the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC).
A commemoration to the victims of a massacre of 80 years ago took place in Lutowiska in Bieszczady. On June 22, 1942, the Germans murdered 650 people there, and soon another 150 thereafter. The victims were Jews and about thirty Roma. The commemoration was attended, among others, by the Ambassador of Israel in Poland, Yacov Livne and Adam Bartosz – Vice President of the Association of Polish Roma.
Roma politicians have initiated an investigation against the Lungo Drom association with the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Prosecutor. According to them, the activities of Lungo Drom’s President Flórián Farkas seriously endanger the legal operation of the association and the achievement of the goals set in the articles of association. As of 2017, Lungo Drom did not submit financial statements, and the last 2016 report available on the court’s website did not arrive until the fall of 2021.
At least someone in the Government says something…
Applications open to the Romea scholarships.
A city councillor from the Polish city of Przemyśl, Marcin Kowalski, claimed on facebook that his border town is visited by “hordes” of Roma from Ukraine, who take advantage of the loopholes in the provisions on helping Ukrainian citizens to receive Polish social benefits.
Bad.
A short video on the case of a Slovak man and a Polish woman who were sentenced recently for enslaving at least 29 young Roma in the UK.
A Slovak man and a Polish woman were sentenced respectively to 16 and 9 years of jail in the UK for having enslaved at least 29 young Roma who were brought to the UK on false promises, and then forced to work for 16 to 18 hours per day, seven days a week.
Had it been Roma who had done that, this would be splashed all over the papers …
Ahead of the meeting of the Brno City Council, a group of people demonstrated in front of the town hall, drawing attention to the poor conditions of Roma refugees from Ukraine. They had banners with slogans such as “We are all human, let’s treat each other humanly”, “Solidarity without differences”, “Their husbands are fighting for their homeland and their wives are sleeping on the ground with their children” or “Stop selective solidarity”.
The well-known Hungarian Roma music group “Parno Grast” [White Horse] celebrated yesterday its 30th anniversary with a concert.
Best wishes for many more successful years!
In the aftermath of the condemnation of Slovakia and the compensation of the victims of a police beating in Moldova nad Bodvou, a round table on the subject in Slovakia.
The famous Romani musician Ida Kelarová was nominated for a Czech state award. She refused the nomination for as long as Miloš Zeeman is the president.
She is right.
Well, Roma refugees are not welcome … We know that.
A Romea Reportage for Deutsche Welle.
The Slovak government is to compensate the victims of the police raid from Moldava nad Bodvou nine years ago, the European Court of Human Rights ruled. The court ruled on the compensation of eight men, to whom the Slovak Republic would pay a total of 110,000 euros.
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An article about forced weddings of Romnja in Bosnia. This practice of arranged marriages and of buying the bride is a mostly Vlach tradition.
The Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe (CoE) to the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities called on the Slovak authorities to eliminate discrimination against Roma children in education and to improve the mechanism for promoting cultures of national minorities. RE spokesman Jaime Rodríguez informed TASR on Wednesday.
The Czech police finally admitted it: The Czech government rhetoric that they would not support Roma refugees from the Ukraine because most of them have the Hungarian nationality is a lie. According to the police only 150 out of more than 5’000 registered Roma had a Hungarian passport and background.
This is called institutional racism.
The Roma community in Gračanica is facing a number of problems, but it is now increasingly understood that education is a path that opens a better future for the community.
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