Category Archives: France

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The usual this week in the French news. The story of a camp that is slated for demolition on the outskirts of Nantes, in Western France; finally, a short respite for another camp near Strasbourg.

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Several news about the 8th of April in the French press. One is interesting. A French book about Johann Trollmann, the Sinto boxer who won the German heavyweight title in 1933 but was then stripped of the title. Here, no mention about Sinti …

The rest of the news are the usual ones: A camp near Strasbourg will be closed and a fire in a camp in Toulouse.

An Article about a Romni

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A portrait of a young Romni in the Ukraine. She completed her studies. But what is written about Roma in this article is just terrible.

The author has obviously no idea what he (or she) is talking about. In addition, the authors puts in multiple stereotypes. Really bad journalism but unfortunately typical of what one finds in the French press.

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Not much, but nothing good this week in the French press about Roma. An association that is being accused of preventing the closure of a Roma camp has been denied subsidies; a large police action against drug dealers and burglars in Nantes, focusing on a Roma camp; and near Toulouse, the closure of two illegal camps.

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Not much this week about Roma in the French press… A camp in Bordeaux was closed leaving 500 people without shelter, and a reportage in Marseilles from the notorious Charlie Hebdo.

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Not much this week in the French press about Roma. An article about the recent murder of a Romni near the Swiss border in Genève, and a large police action in Western France after thefts in a company.

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The usual unfortunate news: A camp near Paris that existed since 2017 has been closed this week, leaving roughly 200 people of which 90 children without a roof; there was a large police action in another camp on the outskirts of Paris; a festival of Roma culture in the South West; and finally, the extreme rightist Breizh info reports on the cancellation of an insertion village near Nantes in Western France.

On a Murder

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Her name was Angela Rostas, she was Romni and lived with her husband in a caravan on isolated land in Chênex, in France. She was 40 years old, the mother of three daughters and seven months pregnant. On February 22, she was shot and killed. That day, around 5 p.m., “she heard noises outside her mobile home. Going out to see what it was, she was shot on her doorstep and died,” says the French organization Voix des Roms in a press release, which also indicates having filed a complaint the week passed.

Roma associations suspect a racist murder.

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Not much this week in France about Roma: Basically several articles on the movie “Comme un fils” [like a son] from the French director Nicola Boukhrief featuring the actor Vincent Lindon in the role of a depressive teacher saved by a young rom.

Other news is the upcoming eviction of a camp in the South East of France.

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The French television channel TF1 showed the movide “A bras Ouvert”, a movie that came out in 2017 and immediately created a controversy as it displayed many racist clichés about Roma. Bad Idea, and bad movie.

Other news in France are more of the usual ones: A camp was closed near Fréjus in the south of France; another one in Angers in Western France; In Angers, they opened up a temporary insertion site; and finally a reportage in Western France on a site opened for Roma.

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The usual litany, unfortunately. In Marseilles, the State has presented a plan to integrate the ca. 900 Roma who live in camps through employment. About time… In Marseilles too, the planned insertion village will not be built, and another camp will be closed. Finally, two young Romnja are in court near Paris for having aggressed the wife of a policeman (not very smart from them).

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The usual. In Marseilles, a proposed so-called “Insertion village” project, a place where Roma can settle in and integrate, has been abandoned under pressure from the neighbours. Bad. In Bordeaux, a Roma camp was vacated the day before its official expulsion. Near Paris, Roma returned in a camp following a large fire.

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A mayor in France made racist comments about Roma on a WhatsApp group, and 2 years later, they surfaced. He pleads that he was simply “clumsy”. A bit easy to try to get away from these comments. Near Paris, a town was condemned for having refused to enroll Roma children in schools. That is good. In February 2023, the residents from a town near Paris expulsed Roma from a camp. A formal complaint was lodged, but French Justice, in those cases seems reluctant to do anything. Near Marseilles, the installation of an “insertion village” provokes protests from residents. Finally, Roma who fled their cam following a fire have returned.

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More news this week in France. A series of reportages, purportedly representing the “true” way of life of Roma, while actually extrapolating the views of a small minority to a large majority who have nothing to do with these presentations. Otherwise, the usual …

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Few news on Roma. An article about Roma travellers in the South of France; the fate of Roma who where expelled near Lyon; a police operation in a Roma camp near Nantes in Western France; and the condemnation of a man who robbed a shop armed with a pitchfork.

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Two features in the French TV that actually reinforce stereotypes. One documentary about Roma who lie in the shantytown, and a feature film on a young woman who refuses to marry the family’s candidate. And of course always the French fact that Roma are the foreigners.

An exhibition on the expulsion of Roma in Montreuil is being shown in the South West by Emmaüs, an exhibition that had been refused in another place earlier.

The rest of the news is more usual: A fire in a caravan near Angers, and two burglaries, one with a ram car and another one with pitchforks.

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First review of 2024 of the news in France about Roma. The main article is about Bulgaria and Romania partly joining the Schengen space, and the question as to whether the 10% of Roma who live there will migrate en masse. Another article is about the festival “Welcome en Tsiganie” whose programation will centre on a homage to Ferus  Mustafov. Finally, an unusual Roma squat in a former Chinese consulate in Belgium.

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Not much of the usual camp closure and petty criminality this week, which is good. An article about a new dictionnary on Roma, an exhibition on Roma ghettoes in France, and an article about online racism.

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First an article with maybe good intentions but which labels Roma as nomads, and in the usual French way mixes Gitans, Manouches, Roma, etc. In brief, the usual French confusion. Time they should learn. Then, the more usual: In Bordeaux, Roma from a camp are being re-lodged (an exception) into decent buildings. Finally, In Montpellier, a festival “Migrant’scène” will showcase the documentary about he rumours in France that Roam were stealing children. A must see.

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