Category Archives: News Switzerland

Switzerland loves it complicated… They want segregated camping places for local travelers – Yenische – and for Rroma – usually denotes as “Foreign” even though there are Rroma travelers in Switzerland.

In Western Switzerland, the state is expulsing “foreign Gypsies”.

BAD!

• Le Conseil d’Etat exige le départ de Gitans. In: 20 Minutes. 26.04.2016. http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/romandie/story/Le-Conseil-d-Etat-exige-le-depart-de-Gitans-21038489
• Les gitans quittent la Pointe- du-Grain, les Yéniches arrivent. In: ArcInfo.ch. 02.05.2016. http://www.arcinfo.ch/articles/regions/neuchatel-et-littoral/les-gitans-quittent-la-pointe-du-grain-les-yeniches-arrivent-530158
• Des gitans installés à la Pointe du Grain. In: 24 Heures. http://www.24heures.ch/suisse/suisse-romande/gitans-installes-pointe-grain/story/24133216
• Des gitans sur le parking de la Brena à Colombie. In: ch. 20.04.2016. http://www.arcinfo.ch/articles/regions/neuchatel-et-littoral/des-gitans-sur-le-parking-de-la-brena-a-colombier-525991

A week ago, Rroma in Basel opened the first camping place in the city for travellers.

• Fahrende laden zu Bier und Wurst. In: Telebasel. 17.04.2016. https://telebasel.ch/2016/04/17/fahrende-laden-zu-bier-und-wurst/

The newly established camp for travelers in Basle is again being discussed, as there may be some rare plants there that could be threatened by the caravans… Knowing that this is a strip of grass in the middle of the city next to railroad tracks, no comments required …

• Fahrende müssen schon wieder Pflanzen Platz machen. In: Basellandschaftlische Zeitung. 01.04.2016. http://www.basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/basel/basel-stadt/fahrende-muessen-schon-wieder-pflanzen-platz-machen-130171859

Another article on the new camping place for Rroma in Basle…

• Neuer Standplatz für Fahrende. In: TleBasel. 09.03.2016. https://telebasel.ch/2016/03/09/neuer-standplatz-fuer-fahrende/

Travelers will finally have a place to stay in Basle Switzerland. A new place when they can stay overnight or for longer periods will open soon and will be run by the Association of Swiss Sinti and Roma.

Good!

• Nach langer Odyssee: Fahrende erhalten Platz in Basel. In: Basel Landschaftliche Zeitung. 08.03.2016. http://www.basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/basel/basel-stadt/nach-langer-odyssee-fahrende-erhalten-platz-in-basel-130118936

In Basle, until April, there is no place were travellers can stay. They had to leave a place in the city, which will be established as a permanent camping site for Travellers, and they ended up squatting a field from which they were now expelled. There are to few of these sites in Switzerland to accommodate Travellers in Switzerland.

• Fahrende aus Naturschutzzone vertrieben – nun haben sie Basel verlassen. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung. 10.02.2016. http://www.basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/basel/basel-stadt/fahrende-aus-naturschutzzone-vertrieben-nun-haben-sie-basel-verlassen-130054485

An article on foreign (i.e. Rroma) travellers in Swotzerland. These are often described as dirty by the local travellers (Jenische) and by the press and accused of leaving a mess behind when they leave their camps. This study is somewhat more differentiated!

• Ducret, Jérôme. «Ils ont autant le sens de la propreté que vous ou moi». In: 24 Heures. 28.01.2016. http://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/proprete/story/17375510