An article that can only be qualified as trash on witches in Romania – qualified as often being “gitanes”.
A reportage on the situation of Roma in Sibiu, Romania.
– Das Elend der Roma von Sibiu. In: Deutsche Welle. 09.05.2019. https://www.dw.com/de/das-elend-der-roma-von-sibiu/a-48668555 [link-preview url=”https://www.dw.com/de/das-elend-der-roma-von-sibiu/a-48668555″]
The usual kind of “reporting”. Yes, there it shows a police raid against Roma in Romania. But Child slavery? Begging? Come on …
– BUILT WITH BRIT CASH. The luxury town where rich Romanian gangsters build mega mansions from British money and child slavery. In: The Sun. 22.02.2019. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8478723/luxury-town-romania-human-trafficking-uk/ [link-preview url=”https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8478723/luxury-town-romania-human-trafficking-uk/”]
The Romani actress Alina Serban is making the headlines in the Belgian press and is contributing to a change of representation of Roma in that country.
– Alina Serban, conteuse d’histoires. In: Le Soir. 06.02.2019. https://plus.lesoir.be/205082/article/2019-02-06/alina-serban-conteuse-dhistoires
– “Seule à mon mariage”, l’autre réussite belge de Cannes. In: L’Echo. 07.02.2019. https://www.lecho.be/culture/cinema/seule-a-mon-mariage-l-autre-reussite-belge-de-cannes/10095425.html
– “Seule à mon mariage” sur les grands écrans dés mercredi. In: RTC. 05.02.2019. https://www.rtc.be/video/culture/cinema/-quot-seule-a-mon-mariage-quot-sur-les-grands-ecrans-des-mercredi-_1500812_325.html [link-preview url=”https://plus.lesoir.be/205082/article/2019-02-06/alina-serban-conteuse-dhistoires “]
Romania will preside the EU for the coming 6 months. This article ponders the impact of this presidency over the situation of Roma in the country.
Well, we think it will not change much for as long as the country as a whole does not change.
– Profitieren rumänische Roma vom EU-Vorsitz? In: Deutschlandfunk. 02.02.2019. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/antiziganismus-in-rumaenien-profitieren-rumaenische-roma.724.de.html?dram:article_id=440027 [link-preview url=”https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/antiziganismus-in-rumaenien-profitieren-rumaenische-roma.724.de.html?dram:article_id=440027″]
A reportage on an old celebration in Romania that can be traced back to Roma.
– Did You Know of This Romanian Festival That Is Supposed To Ward Off Evil Spirits? In: About Her. https://www.abouther.com/node/16336/people/events/did-you-know-romanian-festival-supposed-ward-evil-spirits [link-preview url=”https://www.abouther.com/node/16336/people/events/did-you-know-romanian-festival-supposed-ward-evil-spirits”]
Stereotypes in Netflix – this time about a prison in Romania and Roma.
– Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons Season 3 Details Revealed. In: What’s On Netflix. 13.12.2018. https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/inside-the-worlds-toughest-prisons-season-3-details-revealed/ [link-preview url=”https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/inside-the-worlds-toughest-prisons-season-3-details-revealed/”]
Another article on the Roma villas in the Ukrainian village of Podvinogradov close to the Romanian border.
– JOURNALISTS SHOWED THE RICH SETTLEMENT OF ROMA IN TRANSCARPATHIA. VIDEO. In: Bobr Times. 07.11.2018. https://bobrtimes.com/journalists-showed-the-rich-settlement-of-roma-in-transcarpathia-video/158614/ [link-preview url=”https://bobrtimes.com/journalists-showed-the-rich-settlement-of-roma-in-transcarpathia-video/158614/”]
A Roma settlement in the Ukraine is making the headlines. Situated close to the Romanian border, the village of Podvinogradov has a collection of rich Roma mansions os a taste similar to the one across the border.
– В Украине нашли секретный табор ромов, богатству которого позавидует даже Янукович: видео. In: ZNAJ. 13.12.2018. https://znaj.ua/ru/society/192774-v-ukrajini-znayshli-sekretniy-tabir-romiv-bagatstvu-yakogo-pozazdrit-navit-yanukovich-video [link-preview url=”https://znaj.ua/ru/society/192774-v-ukrajini-znayshli-sekretniy-tabir-romiv-bagatstvu-yakogo-pozazdrit-navit-yanukovich-video”]
Not many news in France this week, probably due to the current manifestations in the country…
In the news, a portrait of a young Romanian Romni who is in high school, which highlights the difficulties to get into a school. Another article on 8, Rue Lénine, the new movie on Roma. An open letter addressed to the prefect of the Val de Marne, to ask for a strategy to on Roma camps. And finally, several articles on a squat of Roma in Buchelay who are allowed to stay.
– Ana-Maria, 16 ans : «Ma vie entre le bidonville et le lycée». In: Le Parisien. 20.11.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/ana-maria-16-ans-ma-vie-entre-le-bidonville-et-le-lycee-20-11-2018-7947030.php
– Anna Pitoun: “Filmer c’est écouter avant de regarder”. In: France Culture. 20.11.2018. https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/par-les-temps-qui-courent/anna-pitoun
– Val-de-Marne : lettre ouverte au préfet sur le sort des Roms. In: Le Parisen. 22.11.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/val-de-marne-94/val-de-marne-lettre-ouverte-au-prefet-sur-le-sort-des-roms-22-11-2018-7950246.php
– Buchelay : le tribunal administratif de Versailles suspend l’expulsion des Roms. In: Le Parisien. 19.11.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/buchelay-le-tribunal-administratif-de-versailles-suspend-l-expulsion-des-roms-19-11-2018-7946709.php
– Les Roms de Buchelay obtiennent un sursis. In: La Gazette des Yvelines. 22.11.2018. https://lagazette-yvelines.fr/2018/11/22/les-roms-de-buchelay-obtiennent-un-sursis/
– Yvelines. Buchelay : de squat en squat, itinéraire d’un Rom. In: Actu.fr. 20.11.2018. https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/buchelay_78118/yvelines-buchelay-squat-squat-itineraire-dun-rom_19667501.html [link-preview url=”https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/par-les-temps-qui-courent/anna-pitoun “]
No comments, but it is not good for all…
– ‘Leave your toys, today you married your bride’: Boy, 10, ‘marries’, eight-year-old girl in Romanian gypsy ceremony. In: The Daily Mail. 20.11.2018. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6409933/Boy-10-marries-eight-year-old-girl-Romanian-gypsy-ceremony.html [link-preview url=”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6409933/Boy-10-marries-eight-year-old-girl-Romanian-gypsy-ceremony.html”]
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance launched a digital exhibition on the Roma and Sinti Holocaust. Worth checking.
– Digital Exhibition about Genocide of Sinti and the Roma accompanied by Stories about Hungary, Croatia and Romania. In: IHRA. https://holocaustremembrance.com/news-archive/digital-exhibition-about-genocide-sinti-and-roma-accompanied-stories-about-hungary?fbclid=IwAR0tbFEAPiNNdX1gx43vcmO2LnBU2RONW8CXkKNrc2bq3xP9dlsSkgu2GSY [link-preview url=”https://holocaustremembrance.com/news-archive/digital-exhibition-about-genocide-sinti-and-roma-accompanied-stories-about-hungary?fbclid=IwAR0tbFEAPiNNdX1gx43vcmO2LnBU2RONW8CXkKNrc2bq3xP9dlsSkgu2GSY”]
A testimony of a Romanian Roma couple who lived in France for the last 15 years.
– HEUREUSE COMME UNE ROM EN FRANCE. In: Amnesty International. 03.11.2018. https://www.amnesty.fr/discriminations/actualites/8-avenue-lenine [link-preview url=”https://www.amnesty.fr/discriminations/actualites/8-avenue-lenine”]
This is bad: A network of welfare fraud for at least 1.7 million euros in the North has been dismantled and three Roma have been indicted for organised fraud. Agents of the Family Allowance Fund (CAF) and the social regime of the self-employed (RSI) had reported mid-2017 the abnormal increase, in a few months, of the constitution of files – 1,200 by Roma entrepreneurs living in Valenciennes.
According to a source close to the survey, young women declared themselves self-employed in metal recycling, then declared false pregnancies supported by the RSI. Money was then transferred to Romania and invested in real estate. Three Roma, two men and a woman aged 27 and considered as the head of the network, were arrested this week, indicted for organized fraud, forgery and use of forged, and imprisoned.
– Valenciennois : une escroquerie aux allocations sociales d’au moins 1,7 million d’euros démantelée. In: FR3. 19.10.2018. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-0/valenciennois-escroquerie-aux-allocations-sociales-au-moins-17-million-euros-demantelee-1561700.html
– Nord: une escroquerie aux allocations sociales d’au moins 1,7 million d’euros démantelée. In: L’Express Mutuel. 19.10.2018. https://www.lexpress.mu/article/341386/nord-une-escroquerie-aux-allocations-sociales-dau-moins-17-million-deuros-demantelee
– Fausses autoentrepreneures et fausses grossesses : une escroquerie aux allocations sociales d’au moins 1,7 million d’euros démantelée dans le Nord. In: L’Est Éclair. 19.10.2018. http://www.lest-eclair.fr/86327/article/2018-10-19/nord-une-escroquerie-aux-allocations-sociales-d-au-moins-1-7-million-d-euros
– Nord : ils escroquent 1,7 million d’euros d’allocations sociales, le réseau démantelé. In: Sud Ouest. 19.10.2018. https://www.sudouest.fr/2018/10/19/nord-ils-escroquent-1-7-million-d-euros-d-allocations-sociales-le-reseau-demantele-5495435-10407.php
– Nord : 1,7 millions d’euros de prestations sociales détournées par un réseau dirigé par des Roms. In: RT. 20.10.2018. https://francais.rt.com/france/54757-nord-17-millions-deuros-prestations-sociales-detournees-reseau-dirige-roms
– Nord: Au moins 1,7 million de prestations sociales détournées par deux familles roumaines. In: 20 Minutes (FR). 19.10.2018. https://www.20minutes.fr/lille/2357623-20181019-nord-moins-17-million-prestations-sociales-detournees-deux-familles-roumaines
– Nord : une escroquerie aux allocations sociales d’au moins 1,7 million d’euros démantelée. In: Europe 1. 19.10.2018. http://www.europe1.fr/faits-divers/nord-une-escroquerie-aux-allocations-sociales-dau-moins-17-million-deuros-demantelee-3783011
– Nord: une escroquerie aux allocations sociales d’au moins 1,7 million d’euros démantelée. In: Actu Orange. 19.10.2018. https://actu.orange.fr/france/nord-une-escroquerie-aux-allocations-sociales-d-au-moins-1-7-million-d-euros-demantelee-CNT0000017AyJj.html
– Fausses autoentrepreneures et fausses grossesses: une escroquerie aux allocations sociales d’au moins 1,7 million d’euros démantelée dans le Nord. In: Le Courrier Picard. 19.10.2018. http://www.courrier-picard.fr/143531/article/2018-10-19/fausses-autoentrepreneures-et-fausses-grossesses-une-escroquerie-aux-allocations [link-preview url=”https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-0/valenciennois-escroquerie-aux-allocations-sociales-au-moins-17-million-euros-demantelee-1561700.html “]
A new movie aims at deconstructing the stereotypes on Roma in Marseille – this is new in France. In Sètes, in the South, a temporary camp will be closed mid-November. In Montreuil, near Paris, yet another evacuation, and a pledge for the children who are the victims of such evacuations, losing their right to attend school in the process. Near Paris, in Noisy le Grand, a squat is provoking tensions in the neighbourhood. In the North, a Romni who is part of an integration program is again expulsed – nasty. Finally, the story of a young Rom from Romania who has created is own enterprise in Strasbourg.
– Marseille : un film qui démonte les clichés autour des Roms. In: La Marseillaise. 17.10.2018. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/culture/cinema/72794-marseille-un-film-qui-demonte-les-cliches-autour-des-roms
– Sète : le camp transitoire de roms démantelé le 15 novembre. In: Le Midi Libre. 19.10.2018. https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/10/19/sete-le-camp-transitoire-de-roms-demantele-le-15-novembre,4738467.php
– Énième évacuation de Roms à Montreuil. In: Médiapart. 16.10.2018. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/beatrice-turpin/blog/161018/enieme-evacuation-de-roms-montreuil
– Enfants Roms, chassés de la ville-monde. In: Médiapart. 16.10.2018. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/161018/enfants-roms-chasses-de-la-ville-monde
– Noisy-le-Grand : le squat d’un hôtel provoque des tensions avec les riverains. In: Yahoo. 14.10.2018. https://fr.news.yahoo.com/noisy-grand-squat-d-hôtel-provoque-tensions-riverains-141952421.html
– La maman Rom en insertion à nouveau expulsée… I: La Voix du Nord. 19.10.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/472757/article/2018-10-19/la-maman-rom-en-insertion-nouveau-expulsee
– Journée mondiale de lutte contre la pauvreté : Viorel, de la rue à la création d’entreprise à Strasbourg. In: France Bleu. 16.10.2018. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/economie-social/viorel-auto-patron-rom-d-une-societe-de-nettoyage-de-voitures-a-domicile-1539705135 [link-preview url=”https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/10/19/sete-le-camp-transitoire-de-roms-demantele-le-15-novembre,4738467.php “]
The reaction of the Romanian Roma organisation following the apologies on the accusations against them by the Northern Irish authorities.
– ‘They’re from the community of Roma, they look bad to us’. In: BBC. 17.10.2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-45896723/they-re-from-the-community-of-roma-they-look-bad-to-us [link-preview url=”https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-45896723/they-re-from-the-community-of-roma-they-look-bad-to-us”]
One always wonders why people can write totally false things about Roma with total impunity…
– ABOUT ROMANIA AND GYPSIES. NEED ROMANIAN EXPERIENCE IN UKRAINE? – NEWS ZIK.UA. In: Siver Post. 02.10.2018. https://sivpost.com/about-romania-and-gypsies-need-romanian-experience-in-ukraine-news-zik-ua/23912/ [link-preview url=”https://sivpost.com/about-romania-and-gypsies-need-romanian-experience-in-ukraine-news-zik-ua/23912/”]
The home of the most “Roma palaces”, the Romanian city of Buzescu goes to Asia, and apparently also to the national geographic next month.
– It looks like the quarter Gypsy millionaires. Photo. In: MiceTimes. 24.09.2018. http://micetimes.asia/it-looks-like-the-quarter-gypsy-millionaires-photo/ [link-preview url=”http://micetimes.asia/it-looks-like-the-quarter-gypsy-millionaires-photo/”]
An article about the “Roma Palaces” in Romania. Many of these belong to Kalderaša. This time in Hunedoara.
– Topul celor mai bizare palate ale romilor din România: clădirile în care s-au investit milioane de euro. In: Adevarul. 04.09.2018. https://adevarul.ro/locale/hunedoara/topul-celor-mai-bizare-palate-romilor-romania-cladirile-s-au-investit-milioane-euro-1_5b8d4be4df52022f75168c8c/index.html [link-preview url=”https://adevarul.ro/locale/hunedoara/topul-celor-mai-bizare-palate-romilor-romania-cladirile-s-au-investit-milioane-euro-1_5b8d4be4df52022f75168c8c/index.html”]
New demographic statistics in Romania seem to indicate that 25% of the workforce will be Roma by 2050…
– Romii ar putea reprezenta 25% din forța de muncă din România, până în 2050, arată un raport al Ambasadei SUA. In: B1. 29.08.2018. https://b1.ro/stiri/eveniment/ambasada-sua-raport-romi-forta-de-munca-romania-2050-25-238382.html
– Populaţia României, în continuă scădere: 220.000 de persoane au emigrat în 2017. In: B1. https://b1.ro/stiri/eveniment/populatia-romaniei-emigrari-2018-238319.html [link-preview url=”https://b1.ro/stiri/eveniment/ambasada-sua-raport-romi-forta-de-munca-romania-2050-25-238382.html “]
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