France – rroma.org https://rroma.org Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:29:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png France – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Django Reinhardt Movie https://rroma.org/django-reinhardt-movie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=django-reinhardt-movie Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:29:49 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32307 A movie from 2017 about Django Reinhardt. While other Sinti across Europe are persecuted, Django’s popularity allows him to feel safe – until the Nazis try to send him on tour to Germany. Django refuses. His Parisian lover helps him, his pregnant wife, and his mother go into hiding near the Swiss border. There he meets members of his extended family, who are also on the run. He plans to cross Lake Geneva into Switzerland, but the Nazis are hot on his heels.

Well, the Swiss denied him Entry …

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-357/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-357 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:08:05 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32282 French news last week were dominated with a reportage from TF1, state TV about how minors are exploited by Roma networks to maximise gains. Again, this might be part of the reality, but how it is presented is simply pandering to sterotypes and extrapolating to all Roma. In brief, a racist narrative.

Other news, the usual: closure of a camp near Orange, in the Sotuh of France, and a fight between Roma (according to the extreme right Breizh info).

]]> France and the Genocide https://rroma.org/france-and-the-genocide-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=france-and-the-genocide-3 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:30:52 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32164 A Roma association is calling for France to recognize the genocide of the “Sinti, Gitans, Manouches, Yenish, and Travellers.” The association, represented by lawyer and writer Anina Ciuciu, great-granddaughter of Romanians deported during the Second World War, initiated a proposed resolution, which was placed on the agenda for April 8th in the European Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-356/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-356 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:28:33 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31926 Quite a few articles about two Romanian Roma families who were condemned for having forced their children to beg. Other than that, in Nantes, Roma are voting to try to influence their fate in that city. Finally, in central France, two Serbian and two Romanian Roma were condemned for a series of burglaries.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-355/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-355 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:25:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31819 This week, the only articles on Roma concern the municipal elections being held in France on March 12th and all of these articles concern Roma in Nantes who are trying to have a say in those elections. Apparently, they massively registered to vote (as they can in France). The only other articles are a squat being closed in Lyon, and one from the extreme right Breizh Info on a so called reportage in the largest slum in France.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-354/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-354 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:20:10 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31739 Basically nothing about Roma this week in French media. Not surprising as there are many other news… Only the case of two Roma who took a cubic metre of water of a hydrant, and the arrival of mobile homes in a so-called “insertion village” in Western France.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-353/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-353 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:55:17 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31643 An exhibition of works of Ceija Stoika; and the more usual news: A camp closed near Paris, requiring lots of cleanup; the Roma question in the French municiapl elections; the Genocide of the Roma will have a memorial ihn the South of France; and a meeting with the “gens du voyage” near Paris.

]]> Five centuries https://rroma.org/five-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-centuries Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:05:18 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31551 An exhibition in France about the five centuries of slavery of Roma in Romanan lands. A slavery that the Romanian church still denies having been involved in…

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-352/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-352 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:04:11 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31548 Almost no news in France this week about Roma. Only one article about a Roma camp in Antibes, in the South of France.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-351/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-351 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:54:26 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31470 Only one notable article about Roma in France in the French speaking press this week. A camp near Angers in Western France is awaiting its closure.

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