The latest movie from Tony Gatliff, Ange et Soléa, is presented at the Cannes Festival.
A brawl between two families during the pilgrimage of the Saintes-Marie de la Mer resulted in shots being fired, with two people seriously wounded and some others hit by baseball bats.
Bad.
Not much this week about Roma in France. Another article about Roma in Nantes protesting their expulsion as they are working, and another one about a fire in a Roma camp in Lille, in Northern France.
The yearly pilgrimage of Saintes Maries de la Mer has started.
An interesting article about a professor in France stating “they are not nomads”. Pretty much everyone knows that, except for France …
Other than that, Roma from a closed camp still have no permanent abode, and two articles on dogs. One where apparently dogs were drugged by Roma for begging, and the other, the case of a dog stolen by a Rom.
The news in France on Roma is dominated by the murder of a Moslem in the South of France. The suspect, a Frenchman of Bosnian origins surrendered to the Italian police after he fled the crime scene. What does it have to do with Roma, well, unfortunately, the suspect murderer is Christian Rom from Bosnia…
Other than that, an exhibition in the South of France on “Gitans”.
Une exposition raconte les trajectoires gitanes. In: Midi Libre. 03.05.2025. https://www.midilibre.fr/2025/05/03/une-exposition-raconte-les-trajectoires-gitanes-12672536.php
Quite a few articles in the French press about the deportation of Roma during World War Two wit a special commemoration on the “Dzy of Deportation” on Roma in the deportaion Museum in Tarbes, France.
Lots of news this week about Roma in the French press. First, a Roma collective addresses the French deputies regarding Antigypsyism. Then the more usual news in France: An expulsion in Marseilles and the consequences of upcoming closure of a large camp near Nantes in Western France.
An action in France for the recognition of the genocide of the Roma (and the participation of France in it.
Several articles in the French press about April 8th.
A theatre performance about Roma in Greece, with Roma. The scenography, which, through its few elements, flouts expectations. A plastic chair, a wooden hut with a tin roof, grass and rocks, car seats, a guitar, and even a large, dilapidated billboard—which will serve as a projection screen—denote an environment that ticks all the boxes of stereotypes. Assistant director Avraam Goutzeloudis, himself Roma, introduces the setting.
An event in Marseilles to help a women organisation of Mukachevo in Transcarpathian Ukraine, who are trying to create a women’s house to better inform about contraception.
Only one significant news in the French press this week, with Jean Baptiste Borsali, the mayor of the town of Le Bourget, near Paris, asking the interior minister to evacuate two camps of Roma in this town. The mayor reports “insistent and sometimes aggressive begging”, an “increase in burglaries and snatch thefts”, a “growing sense of insecurity”, an “uncontrollable proliferation of pests despite pest control efforts” and “streets and sidewalks littered with rubbish from systematic garbage rummaging”.
Quite a few articles this week in the French press about Roma. Mostly about a Roma camp near Nantes in Western France. Roma in this camp, in Carquefou have been summoned to leave. The issue, they cannot leave with their 131 caravans, as the access road is blocked. No comment.
In Nantes, in another camp, a fire started and in the same city, an organisation is worried about the living conditions in Roma camps. Still in Western France, an exhibition aims at building bridges between Roma and the local population. In Annecy, in the Alps, a camp reopened. In South of France, a German tourist geolocalised his stolen iPad in a Roma camp.
In Paris on March 26th, Alina Şerban will present her new theatre piece titled “the big shame”. Near Nantes in Western France, Roma who live on a site called “la Montagne” talk to the press. On the same site, an initiative invited the Roma and neighbours for two events.
Almost no news in France this week about Roma. A conference to be held on March 11th about “Roms et Gens du Voyage” (the usual French mess in terms of names), in Western France, and the tons of garbage that are left after the closure of a Roma camp near Paris.
This week, an article looks at the difficult living conditions in a Roma camp in Western France; one article tells about neighbours of a Roma camp in Southern France complaining about dirt and garbage; and finally, two articles about an altercation between Roma that left 2 people with knife wounds.
Only one article on Roma in France this week. When there are enough other news, Roma are not needed to fill in the papers…
Very little this week in France about Roma. Between French politics and Trump, papers did not need to fill pages with Roma …
In Nantes, in Western France, the municipality is working closely with all actors to close a camp. Near Paris, after a camp was closed, there are tons of garbage that need to be cleaned out.
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