Or how a town sends Roma refugees from the Ukraine further away…
Some Romnja were prevented from leaving the Ukraine several times before being able to cross into Hungary.
Bad.
“A small town made up of Sinti and Roma” is developing on the Munich exhibition grounds. The member of parliament Andreas Lorenz (CSU) visited the exhibition halls on Sunday (March 3rd). His conclusion: “Today, 2,100 people are housed here. 1,200 of them are children. 90 percent are Sinti and Roma.” Apparently not all those who arrive come from the Ukraine. “Around 30 percent have no papers”, can be heard in the exhibition halls. Lorenz: “I found that many don’t even know the Ukrainian government districts.”
An article on Roma refugees from the Ukraine that were welcomed by Roma in the Moravian region of the Czech republic.
Such articles do not help, but then, the facts are not good either.
A group of Roma refugees from the Ukraine rioted when they were told they would need to lodge in a gym. They were expecting a hotel…
Roma refugees from the Ukraine are complaining of discrimination in Germany.
Romani Rose, chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma denounces the racism shown by personnel from the Deutsche Bahn against Roma refugees from the Ukraine.
Especially the German train company should be somewhat cautious in this matter…
A description of the racist incident in the Manheim train station.
According to this article, Roma in Poland had to move out of refugees’ quarters, as other refugees chased them out.
Bad.
A group of Roma soldiers has been serving on the war front line in Ukraine for two weeks now. They are all from one city, but now, like other Roma in Ukraine, they have volunteered to defend their homeland from a barbaric attack by the Russian army. “We get up at four or five in the morning, as needed. There are days when we don’t sleep at all,” says a Romani soldier from the Ukrainian army in an exclusive interview with ROMEA TV.
A reportage on the fate of Roma refugees from the Ukraine. And of course, discriminations exist.
Several Roma refugees from the Ukraine arrived in Freiburg, Germany.
A reportage in the Western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, near the Slovak and Hungarian borders, a city with a large Roma minority which now takes care of many additional Roma refugees from other places in the Ukraine.
An article about Roma refugees from the Ukraine in the Czech Republic. The article cites roughly 500 Roma, mostly women with small children, and mostly from Western Ukraine – the region around Uzhgorod.
Main problem, the language barrier.
No words …
Research from Romea in the Czech Republic confirmed by local Roma NGOs and our own research on the web, show that photographs from Lviv, Ukraine, on which Roma are strapped to columns and sticky on their faces, are which are spreading on social networks have a somewhat different background. The photos allege that they are refugees from Kiev who were attacked without delay by local Ukrainians immediately upon arrival. However, as the Romea.cz news server found out, the context of the photos is somewhat different. This is allegedly a group of pickpockets who were arrested in this unacceptable way while stealing. Russian propaganda uses photographs disseminated in a different context to confirm the presence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
Another article with more details about the roughly 500 Roma refugees from the Ukraine who made it to the Czech Republic.
Many Roma in the Ukraine have no official papers, not even a birth certificate. This is clearly more prevalent in the countryside and in the Southwestern part of the country, although the number of Roma without papers is difficult to assess. Now, as refugees from the War, they are doubly discriminated.
The picture of Roma bound to posts made it though the social media, amplified by Russia, alleging this was outright discrimination. As usual, reality is more circumstantiated, as these Roma were caught stealing (see also below the article in Romea). Nevertheless, self-justice, and especially of this kind is not acceptable.
This Ukrainian article strongly condemn this act, and effectively says this plays in the hand of the Russians in their attempt to portray all Ukrainians as Nazis.
The City of Freiburg is organising help for refugees from the Ukraine, also for Roma.
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