An open letter by a Romani parish councillor on the lack of camping sites for Roma travellers.
– Letter: There Is A Lack of Provision of Gypsy and Traveller Pitches. In: The Guilford Dragon News. 13.08.2017. http://www.guildford-dragon.com/2017/08/12/letter-lack-provision-gypsy-traveller-pitches/ [link-preview url=”http://www.guildford-dragon.com/2017/08/12/letter-lack-provision-gypsy-traveller-pitches/”]
Dire statistics on Roma in France: 4’382 Roma were expulsed in France in the first six months of the year from 50 camps or squats, 2’689 by the police, 867 after a fire, and 796 “voluntarily”… they haven’t been re-lodged, which is against the French law. This cat and mouse play has been lasting for serval years. In Marseilles, an article shows the impact of such constant expulsions on the families, while in Paris, the Roma in Montreuil are still on the street, a year after their expulsion. The fate of a family from Montenegro which will be expulsed gives a face to these policies.
– Des milliers de Roms toujours expulsés chaque année sans relogement. In: Boursorama. 10.08.2017. http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/des-milliers-de-roms-toujours-expulses-chaque-annee-sans-relogement-b483a202783105264df70980b4bc0c5a
– Marseille : la descente aux enfers, à force d’expulsions. In: La Marseillaise. 07.08.2017. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/marseille/societe/62667-la-descente-aux-enfers-a-force-d-expulsions
– Montreuil : une année d’errance pour les familles Roms de la Boissière. In: Le Parisien. 10.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/montreuil-93100/montreuil-une-annee-d-errance-pour-les-familles-roms-de-la-boissiere-10-08-2017-7186014.php
– Des familles monténégrines, bientôt expulsées, vont se retrouver à la rue. In: La Voix du Nord. 11.08.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/203322/article/2017-08-11/des-familles-montenegrines-bientot-expulsees-vont-se-retrouver-la-rue [link-preview url=”http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/des-milliers-de-roms-toujours-expulses-chaque-annee-sans-relogement-b483a202783105264df70980b4bc0c5a “]
An extremely disturbing article by the French essayist Xavier Raufer (a pen name since 1979 with his true name being Christian de Bongain). In this article he stresses the increase of break ins in France (a fact) and attributes it almost exclusively to Roma (a fantasy). Facts to that effect he doesn’t have. This is pure speculation and actually incitation to hate.
Not surprising for a man who spent his formative years in an extreme rightist movement called “Occident” …
– Hausse continue des cambriolages en France… mais qui en sont les auteurs ? In: Politico. 12.08.2017. http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/hausse-continue-cambriolages-en-francemais-qui-en-sont-auteurs-xavier-raufer-3134893.html [link-preview url=”http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/hausse-continue-cambriolages-en-francemais-qui-en-sont-auteurs-xavier-raufer-3134893.html”]
The story and video of the Roma trying to rob a person by dangling a dead rat in their face surfaced in France and Belgium after having been shown in the UK press. There is a definitive summer hole in the news in France for them to use old stories …
– Ils exhibent un rat mort pour l’effrayer et lui voler sa carte bancaire (vidéo). In: RTL. 05.07.2017. http://www.rtl.be/people/potins/ils-exhibent-un-rat-mort-pour-l-effrayer-et-lui-voler-sa-carte-bancaire-video–941966.aspx
– Paris : Des adolescents agressent une femme au distributeur avec un rat mort. In: Minute News. 04.08.2017. https://www.minutenews.fr/actualite/faits-divers/paris-distributeur-rat-mort-217719.html [link-preview url=”https://www.minutenews.fr/actualite/faits-divers/paris-distributeur-rat-mort-217719.html”]
An article and video of Syruian Domari refugees in France. Domari are part of the same migration from India as the Roma, but never crossed into Europe and remained in the Middle East. They have been victims of the ethnic cleansing by IS and displaced by the war.
– Vidéo : les Doms de Syrie, ces migrants considérés comme les “Roms du Moyen-Orient”. In: Info Migrants. 03.08.2017. http://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/4440/video-les-doms-de-syrie-ces-migrants-consideres-comme-les-roms-du-moyen-orient [link-preview url=”http://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/4440/video-les-doms-de-syrie-ces-migrants-consideres-comme-les-roms-du-moyen-orient”]
An interesting project – photos from one single Roma family taken over a period of 20 years – is presented in Arles, in Southern France.
Clearly, as usual, there are clichés in the pictures, but the scope is quite unique.
– LES GORGAN – PORTRAITS D’UNE FAMILLE ROM PAR MATHIEU PERNOT. In: Focus Numérique. 28.07.2017. https://www.focus-numerique.com/portfolio/dossiers/les-gorgans-portraits-d-une-famille-rom-par-mathieu-pernot-20607.html [link-preview url=”https://www.focus-numerique.com/portfolio/dossiers/les-gorgans-portraits-d-une-famille-rom-par-mathieu-pernot-20607.html”]
Summer pause on the news in France on Roma. A fire in a camp near Paris blocked one highway; in Triel sur Seine, a camp can stay – at least temporary; in Ivry, near Paris, 60 Roma were evicted from a squat; 13 families who were evicted a year ago in Montreuil are still on the street; in the North, an association is trying to find a suitable spot for a camp; and in the southwest, in Toulouse, residents complain of migrants squatting in their courtyard.
– Gennevilliers : La nationale 135 coupée à la circulation à cause d’un incendie dans le bidonville roms. In: Paris Vox. 31.07.2017. https://www.parisvox.info/2017/07/31/gennevilliers-nationale-135-coupee-a-circulation-a-cause-dun-incendie-bidonville-roms/
– Triel-sur-Seine : le démantèlement du camp de Roms reporté. In: Le Parisien. 25.07.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/triel-sur-seine-78510/triel-sur-seine-le-demantelement-du-camp-de-roms-reporte-25-07-2017-7156092.php
– Le démantèlement des camps de Roms repoussé. In: 79 Actu. 25.07.2017. http://www.78actu.fr/le-demantelement-des-camps-de-roms-repousse_51564/
– Ivry-sur-Seine : 60 Roms évacués d’un squat. In: Le Parisien. 28.07.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/ivry-sur-seine-94200/ivry-sur-seine-60-roms-evacues-d-un-squat-28-07-2017-7163436.php
– Les treize familles roms de Montreuil vivent depuis un an à la rue. In: Médiapart. 28.07.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/280717/les-treize-familles-roms-de-montreuil-vivent-depuis-un-la-rue
– Le Collectif solidarité roms suggère de créer un camp sur la friche IFTH. In: La Voix du Nord. 29.07.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/197994/article/2017-07-29/le-collectif-solidarite-roms-suggere-de-creer-un-camp-sur-la-friche-ifth
– Depuis presque un an, des migrants dorment dans la cour de leur immeuble. In: La Depeche. 01.08.2017. http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2017/07/31/2620765-toulouse-depuis-presque-an-migrants-dorment-cour-immeuble.html [link-preview url=”https://www.parisvox.info/2017/07/31/gennevilliers-nationale-135-coupee-a-circulation-a-cause-dun-incendie-bidonville-roms/ “]
A lengthy article on Anina Ciuciu, candidate to the senatorial elections in France.
– ANINA CIUCIU SERA PEUT-ÊTRE LA PREMIÈRE SÉNATRICE ROM EN FRANCE.In: Cheek Magazine. 01.08.2017. http://cheekmagazine.fr/societe/anina-ciuciu-senatoriales-rom/
– Romstorie : Anina au Sénat. In: Médiapart. 28.07.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jacques-debot/blog/280717/romstorie-anina-au-senat [link-preview url=”https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jacques-debot/blog/280717/romstorie-anina-au-senat”]
A bad article on petty criminals – this time Roma kids in Paris trying to get the pin of someone withdrawing money from an automated teller.
In the mind of the journalist – all Roma are like this.
BAD.
What dirty rats! Gang of child thieves use dead RODENT to distract and rob terrified woman at Paris cashpoint. In: The Daily Mail. 28.07.2017. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739720/Child-thieves-use-dead-rat-try-rob-woman.html [link-preview url=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739720/Child-thieves-use-dead-rat-try-rob-woman.html”]
A bit of fun and etymology of the term “Bohemian” that originated in France being given to the first Roma who arrived there in the early 1400, with passports granted to them by King Sigismund of Bohemia …
– How a 15th century French migration gave us the term ‘Bohemian’. In: 6sqft. 27.07.2017. https://www.6sqft.com/how-a-15th-century-french-migration-gave-us-the-term-bohemian/ [link-preview url=”https://www.6sqft.com/how-a-15th-century-french-migration-gave-us-the-term-bohemian/”]
An article and a book on the Holocaust of French Roma and a some pictures and documents on the French concentration camp of Montreuil en Beley, where Roma were interned during World War Two (by the French – not the Germans …)
– Screen/Print #60: Suzannah Victoria Beatrice Henty on the contradictory nature of reparation politics. In: Archinect. 28.07.2017. http://archinect.com/features/article/150019196/screen-print-60-suzannah-victoria-beatrice-henty-on-the-contradictory-nature-of-reparation-politics [link-preview url=”http://archinect.com/features/article/150019196/screen-print-60-suzannah-victoria-beatrice-henty-on-the-contradictory-nature-of-reparation-politics”]
Anina Ciuciu, a young Romni and laywer is a candidate to the elections in the French Senate and could become France first Senator of Romani origins.
ALL THE LUCK!
– Possible first for French Senator who is Rom. In: West. 27.07.2017. http://www.west-info.eu/possible-first-for-french-senator-who-is-rom/ [link-preview url=”http://www.west-info.eu/possible-first-for-french-senator-who-is-rom/”]
Very few news this week on France and Roma. In the North of France, neighbours of a Roma camp are fed up with the situation and are asking for the closure of the camp; also in the North, one squat has been closed down; while near Paris, a camp will be shut down shortly; and finally near Nantes in Western France, an association is looking for caravans to relocate Roma (who probably never lived in caravans in the first place).
– Camps Roms : une situation de moins en moins tenable pour les riverains. In: La Voix du Nord. 21.07.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/195058/article/2017-07-21/camps-roms-une-situation-de-moins-en-moins-tenable-pour-les-riverains
– Le squat rom de la rue Nain évacué ce mardi matin. In: Nord Éclair. 18.07.2017. http://www.nordeclair.fr/76564/article/2017-07-18/le-squat-rom-de-la-rue-nain-evacue-ce-mardi-matin
– Bidonville rom de Triel-sur-Seine, avis d’expulsion imminente. In: La Vie. 21.07.2017. http://www.lavie.fr/solidarite/social/bidonville-rom-de-triel-sur-seine-avis-d-expulsion-imminente-21-07-2017-83793_816.php
– Rezé : à la recherche de caravanes pour reloger une trentaine de familles Roms. In: France Bleu. 20.07.2017. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/reze-la-recherche-de-caravanes-pour-reloger-une-trentaine-de-familles-roms-1500521296 [link-preview url=”https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/reze-la-recherche-de-caravanes-pour-reloger-une-trentaine-de-familles-roms-1500521296″]
The latest production from Israel Galvan “Fiesta” is on show in Avignon, France until the 23rd of July.
– AVIGNON : « LA FIESTA » PERCHEE D’ISRAEL GALVAN. In: Inferno. 17.07.2017. https://inferno-magazine.com/2017/07/17/avignon-la-fiesta-perchee-disrael-galvan/
– “La Fiesta” déjantée du Sévillan Israel Galvan divise la Cour d’honneur d’Avignon. In: France24. 17.07.2017. http://www.france24.com/fr/20170717-fiesta-dejantee-sevillan-israel-galvan-divise-cour-dhonneur-davignon [link-preview url=”https://inferno-magazine.com/2017/07/17/avignon-la-fiesta-perchee-disrael-galvan/ “]
More news on Roma in France – an usual pattern during the holiday season. In Marseilles, the largest Roma settlement of the city was closed, leaving 200 people on the street; another camp was closed in the Var, with journalist showing a video that suggest Roma were stealing scooters and cars; in Toulouse, a camp will be closed this coming Monday; in Angers, in Western France, on the one hand a solidarity manifestation for Roma and on the other, a camp that will probably be closed; in Lille, a Roma camp totally burnt down; and near Paris, a communist mayor launched an operation blocking a major highway to protest against a squat along that road and ask for the government to undertake something.
– 200 roms expulsés de leur camp à Marseille. In: FR3 Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur. 06.07.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/metropole-aix-marseille/marseille/200-roms-expulses-leur-camp-marseille-1293165.html
– Marseille: évacuation du plus grand squat de Roms de la ville. In: BFM TV. 06.07.2017. http://www.bfmtv.com/societe/marseille-evacuation-du-plus-grand-squat-de-roms-de-la-ville-1211143.html
– Evacuation du plus grand squat de Roms de Marseille. In: Europe 1. 06.07.2017. http://www.europe1.fr/societe/evacuation-du-plus-grand-squat-de-roms-de-marseille-3381752
– Marseille: Le plus grand camp de Roms de la ville a été évacué. In: 20 Minutes (FR). 06.07.2017. http://www.20minutes.fr/marseille/2100127-20170706-marseille-plus-grand-camp-roms-ville-evacue
– Avec l’été, pour les Roms, le retour des expulsions et bien peu de solutions. In: Marsactu. 07.07.2017. https://marsactu.fr/avec-lete-pour-les-roms-le-retour-des-expulsions-sans-solutions/
– VIDEO. Carcasses de scooters, épaves de voitures… Un camp de Roms installé route du Malpasset a été évacué. In: Var Matin. 04.07.2017. http://www.varmatin.com/vie-locale/video-carcasses-de-scooters-epaves-de-voitures-un-camp-de-roms-installe-route-du-malpasset-a-ete-evacue-151309
– Roms, gens du voyage… Le campement sauvage de Ginestous sera évacué lundi, à Toulouse. In: Actu. 07.07.2017. https://actu.fr/societe/roms-gens-voyage-campement-sauvage-ginestous-sera-evacue-lundi-toulouse_9829324.html
– Angers. Manifestation de soutien aux Roms au jardin du Mail. In: Ouest France. 07.07.2017. http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/angers-manifestation-de-soutien-aux-roms-au-jardin-du-mail-5119571
– Le squat du Chêne-Vert est menace. In: Ouest France. 07.07.2017. http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/le-squat-du-chene-vert-est-menace-5122948
– Le camp rom de l’avenue Denis-Cordonnier entièrement détruit par un incendie. In: La Voix du Nord. 07.07.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/188660/article/2017-07-07/le-camp-rom-de-l-avenue-denis-cordonnier-entierement-detruit-par-un-incendie
– VIDEO. Lille: Un incendie détruit totalement le camp Rom de la porte de Valenciennes. In: 20 Minutes (FR). 07.07.2017. http://www.20minutes.fr/lille/2101183-20170707-video-lille-incendie-detruit-totalement-camp-rom-porte-valenciennes
– Camp de roms sur la N315 : opération escargot sur l’A15 à Gennevilliers. In: Le Parisien. 04.07.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/transports/operation-escargot-sur-la-n315-a-gennevilliers-03-07-2017-7108101.php [link-preview url=”https://marsactu.fr/avec-lete-pour-les-roms-le-retour-des-expulsions-sans-solutions/ “]
The Polish fashion designer Ewa Minge is presenting a new collection in Paris during the Haute Couture week inspired by Roma dresses and tales. “The collection is extremely colorful, inspired by old fairy tales, drawing directly on culture, music and the Roma tradition,” says Małgorzata Sawicka, president of the Black Butterflies Foundation, founded by Ewa Minga.
– Ewa Minge w Paryżu. Barwne stroje inspirowane romską kulturą. In: Wyborcza. 01.07.2017. http://zielonagora.wyborcza.pl/zielonagora/7,35182,22039327,ewa-minge-w-paryzu-stroje-inspirowane-kultura-romow-zdjecia.html [link-preview url=”http://zielonagora.wyborcza.pl/zielonagora/7,35182,22039327,ewa-minge-w-paryzu-stroje-inspirowane-kultura-romow-zdjecia.html”]
The German Central Council of Sinti and Roma on Simone Veil, the French Politician and Holocaust survivor who just died in France.
– Nachruf auf Simone Veil. In: Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma. 01.07.2017. http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/nachruf-auf-simone-veil/ [link-preview url=”http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/nachruf-auf-simone-veil/”]
Not many news lately on the Roma in France. In the Western part of France, in Nantes, the city has decided to fund a project for insertion for the roughly 1’800 Roma there, with of course Breizh Info protesting at what they see to be a waste of money; in Montpellier, in the South of France, residents next to a Roma camp are protesting and even going to court; near Paris, a member of Parliament for the Républicains made derogatory comments on Roma and beggars in general; a young Rom was beaten to death in the North of France, his assailants have been arrested – the press doesn’t mention their origins; and finally, a note on the current interior minister Gérad Collomb, and still mayor of Lyon and his anti-migrants views;
– Insertion des Roms : un petit début de solidarité. In: Ouest France. 28.06.2017. http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/nantes-44000/insertion-des-roms-un-petit-debut-de-solidarite-5095283
– Roms : Nantes Métropole persiste et paie. In: Breizh Infos. 27.06.2017. http://www.breizh-info.com/2017/06/27/72815/roms-nantes-metropole-paie
– Camp de Roms du Zénith Sud à Montpellier : le préfet se défend de laxisme. In: Midi Libre. 26.06.2017. http://www.midilibre.fr/2017/06/25/camp-de-roms-du-zenith-sud-a-montpellier-vers-un-deplacement-a-celleneuve,1526965.php
– Camp de Roms du Zénith à Montpellier : deux entreprises en justice. In: Midi Libre. 30.06.2017. http://www.midilibre.fr/2017/06/29/camp-de-roms-du-zenith-a-montpellier-deux-entreprises-en-justice,1529918.php
– «Armés de fausses cannes, ils partent sans payer» : les propos d’un élu LR sur les Roms font scandale. In: Le Parisien. 27.06.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/bagnolet-93170/bagnolet-les-propos-de-l-elu-lr-sur-les-roms-font-polemique-27-06-2017-7091940.php
– Jeune homme battu à mort à Villeneuve-d’Ascq : la famille endeuillée menacée d’expulsion. In: France Info. 27.06.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-pas-calais/nord/lille-metropole/jeune-homme-tabasse-mort-villeneuve-ascq-famille-endeuillee-menacee-expulsion-1287289.html
– « À Calais comme à Lyon, Gérard Collomb chasse les migrants » In: Rue89. 28.06.2017. http://www.rue89lyon.fr/2017/06/28/a-calais-a-lyon-gerard-collomb-chasse-migrants/ [link-preview url=”http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/nantes-44000/insertion-des-roms-un-petit-debut-de-solidarite-5095283 “]
Not many news lately. A good news for a change, with a camp in Aix en Provence, in the South of France where the city was condemned for its expulsion order, meaning the camp can stay for now; a camp in Montpellier where neighbours are complaining; an expulsion in Montreuil, near Paris; garbage on the site of a former camp also near Paris; another camp evacuated near Annecy in the French Alps; and finally a camp in Lille which was also closed.
– Une victoire inédite pour les Roms de Valcros. In: La Marseillaise. 22.06.2017. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/marseille/faits-divers-justice/61460-une-victoire-inedite-pour-les-roms-de-valcros
– Montpellier : ce camp de roms qui fait fuir le voisinage. In: Midi Libre. 24.06.2017. http://www.midilibre.fr/2017/06/23/montpellier-ce-camp-de-roms-qui-fait-fuir-le-voisinage,1526304.php
– Montreuil: familles roms expulsées et eau en accès limité. In: Mediapart. 20.06.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/200617/montreuil-familles-roms-expulsees-et-eau-en-acces-limite
– VIDEO. Yvelines : entre Carrières-sous-Poissy et Triel-sur-Seine, la plaine des déchets. In: Le Parisien. 19.06.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/triel-sur-seine-78510/carrieres-sous-poissy-triel-sur-seine-la-plaine-des-dechets-19-06-2017-7067088.php
– Annecy: un camp de Roms évacué à Vovray. In: L’essor Savoyard. 23.06.2017. http://www.lessorsavoyard.fr/annecy-et-sa-region/annecy-un-camp-de-roms-evacue-a-vovray-ia938b939n183943
– Le camp de Roms derrière le Stadium Lille Métropole évacué. In: La Voix du Nord. 20.06.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/180799/article/2017-06-20/le-camp-de-roms-derriere-le-stadium-lille-metropole-evacue [link-preview url=”https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/200617/montreuil-familles-roms-expulsees-et-eau-en-acces-limite “]
Three articles which show what, collectively, the French politicians think of Roma. First, not surprising, a Front National member who made some borderline jokes about Roma, then , a Républicain who has been condemned (good, by the way) for his statements about Roma, and finally, a La France en Marche freshly elected parliament member who makes similar blanket statements about Roma.
SHAME TO ALL OF THEM
– “Quotidien” : la blague polémique d’un député FN sur les Roms. In: Closer. 22.06.2017. https://www.closermag.fr/politique/quotidien-la-blague-polemique-d-un-depute-fn-sur-les-roms-728544
– Montpellier : Domergue condamné au civil pour ses propos sur les Roms. In: Midi Libre. 22.06.2017. http://www.midilibre.fr/2017/06/22/montpellier-domergue-condamne-au-civil-pour-ses-propos-sur-les-roms,1525633.php
– Des «roms qui urinent n’importe où» : les propos d’une nouvelle députée LREM choquent la toile. In: Français RT. 21.06.2017. https://francais.rt.com/france/40091-roms-qui-urinent-nimporte-opetit
– Les propos polémiques de Claire O’Petit, nouvelle députée En Marche! et ex-grande gueule de RMC déterrés. In: Huffington Post. 20.06.2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2017/06/20/les-propos-polemiques-de-claire-opetit-nouvelle-deputee-en-mar_a_22491956/ [link-preview url=”https://www.closermag.fr/politique/quotidien-la-blague-polemique-d-un-depute-fn-sur-les-roms-728544 “]
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