News Western Europe – rroma.org https://rroma.org Sun, 10 May 2026 15:13:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png News Western Europe – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma-3 Sun, 10 May 2026 15:13:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32532 The Austrian Equal Treatment Commission has intervened following a letter from employees of the Neusiedl am See district police command warning the public about Roma and Sinti. Intended as crime prevention information to combat fraud, the now-deleted text of a Facebook post used “a term perceived as discriminatory regarding the Roma ethnic group,” the ministry stated.

Now the interior Ministry is also investigating.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-360/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-360 Sun, 10 May 2026 15:12:42 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32528 Many articles this week about a very young mayor (23 years old) in Western France who is trying to get rid of a Roma camp on the coimmune, an conflict that boiled over with pro-Roma militiants  and with opposistion politicians.

Other than that, near Paris, a new camp on private grounds, and also near Paris, the police is accused of violence against Roma after on policeman shot a young dog in the head during a perquisition in the camp.

]]> Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma-2 Sat, 09 May 2026 14:50:47 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32523 Representatives of the Roma community have sharply criticized a letter from the Neusiedl am See district police command. The letter warns of criminal activities by the traveller community. The state police command condemns the wording of the letter and intends to conduct an internal investigation.

]]> Zentralrat on Austria https://rroma.org/zentralrat-on-austria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zentralrat-on-austria Fri, 08 May 2026 15:40:35 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32508 The Chairman of the German Central Council of Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, pointed out that the National Socialists called on the population in 1933 not to buy from Jews and had police and SS troops march in front of Jewish businesses. He was criticising a letter by the Austrian police of the Burgenland warning the population about Sinti and Roma.

Rose appealed to Interior Minister Karner of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) to initiate disciplinary proceedings against those responsible within the police force. He emphasized that the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities entered into force in Austria in 1998. This obligates the state to counteract all forms of anti-Gypsyism. The Central Council stated that the Europe-wide rise of nationalist forces, which often base their political program on racism and incitement and have now become the strongest political force in Austria, is alarming.

]]> Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:29 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32505 The Austrian Equal Treatment Commission criticized a letter issued by the Burgenland police authority in Neusiedl on Friday, in which the police warned the population about Roma and Sinti. The letter, the Commissioner argued, perpetuates historical anti-Roma stereotypes. The letter’s instruction not to accept services from members of this ethnic group could constitute an incitement to discrimination, emphasized Sandra Konstatzky, head of the Equal Treatment Commission.

]]> Burgtheater Vienna https://rroma.org/burgtheater-vienna/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burgtheater-vienna Wed, 06 May 2026 15:19:05 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32486 A theater director is commissioned by the Burgtheater Vienna to stage a play by and with Roma actors. He promptly decides to use the real-life biographies of the participants for his piece and has a house from their village dismantled into 3,000 individual pieces in order to rebuild it on the stage of the Akademietheater. Audience and press eagerly anticipate the extraordinary production and hope for maximum authenticity.

]]> Award https://rroma.org/award-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=award-4 Mon, 04 May 2026 15:16:45 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32452 The GoShorts program selected six short films that open up space for questions of power and empowerment – of collectives and individuals. Among them was Kismet by Novo Mesto director Žiga Virc, who received the RheinMain Award. It is the sotory of a 11 years old Romni.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-359/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-359 Sun, 03 May 2026 14:21:19 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32440 A long article in the French Le Monde on the Genocide of the Roma during the Holocaust, and the fact that the French are relatively silent about it. Why are they still using “Tsiganes”?

Other news are more of the usual. An article about the so-called insertion vilalge near Nantes, in Western France; a neighbourhood in Lille is unhappy with a Roma camp; and a fire in Montpellier.

]]> Discrimination in Germany https://rroma.org/discrimination-in-germany/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=discrimination-in-germany Sat, 02 May 2026 15:38:52 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32428 Marcella Herzenberger is the chairwoman of the regional association of German Sinti and Roma in Swabia. In this role, she has been working for years to raise awareness about a very specific form of racism directed against Sinti and Roma. This racism manifests itself in deeply rooted prejudices, discrimination and exclusion, extending to structural disadvantages in education, employment, housing, and everyday life.

]]> Travellers in Germany https://rroma.org/travellers-in-germany/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=travellers-in-germany Fri, 01 May 2026 14:47:13 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32419 Another of those stories of camping sites, mostly illegal, where Roma travellers camped and left in a desolate state.

Bad for all.

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