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Dolores Dori

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Dolores Dori

Dolores Dori, a 44 year old Sintica/Romni who was killed in a feud in Lonato del Garda, Brescia is the subject of numerous articles in the Italian press. He mother and her son were apparently arrested. At the core of the story is the daughter who eloped with a boy from the Roma camp in which Dolores was killed.

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Italy: Feud

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Italy: Feud

A feud between Roma resulted in the killing of a 44 year old woman. According to the latest reports, she arrived to collect her daughter, who had moved to the camp against her parents’ wishes. The woman is said to have been having an affair with a boy from the camp, but, according to Brescia Today, she has already been promised in marriage to another man.

She was later shot and wounded and died in a hospital where she was found at the entrance of the emergency room.

Bad.

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Amico Rom

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Amico Rom

The 32nd edition of Amico Rom, an event combining a competition, awards, music, cultural events, and celebrations, will get underway on October 3, 2025. Following the well-attended and moving celebration in memory of the deported Roma and Sinti children held on September 30, this Friday there will be three events in Lanciano: at 10:30 a.m., in the Parco delle Memorie, the solemn ceremony for the Samudaripen (Roma and Sinti genocide) will be held, with the laying of a laurel wreath and speeches by the authorities; At 4:00 pm, the Casa di Conversazione will screen the documentary “A Roma’s Dream,” starring Croatian MP Veljko Kajtazi.

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The Catholic Church and Roma

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The Catholic Church and Roma

A Roma delegation from the Czech Republic led by Karel Karika, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Roma Union, today attended a general audience with Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square. Representatives of the Roma community delivered an exceptional message to the Holy Father: They requested the symbolic lifting of the excommunication of Roma from the Catholic Church, which was declared in 1427 and not abrogated to this day!

Pope Leo XIV also signed a Romanes translation of the Bible during a personal meeting with a Roma delegation from the Czech Republic.

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Italy and Roma

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Italy and Roma

Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, Archbishop of Naples, last Saturday morning in a lecture to workers engaged in pastoral care for Roma, Sinti, and Caminanti, gathered in the Campania capital for their annual meeting said that Pastoral care for Roma and Sinti requires “recognizing the dignity of those who live with pauses and restarts, dismantling the prejudice that confuses mobility and suspicion, moving from a ‘integration’ that unifies to an alliance that values ​​languages, crafts, music, and extended family.”

Well, the catholic church doesn’t have a good track record of caring for Roma …

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Italy, Roma, and the Genocide

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Italy, Roma, and the Genocide

In Naples, Chi Roma e… chi non guided young Roma and non-Roma people on a journey of education and testimony, culminating in a trip to Auschwitz. There they discovered the story of the Sinti boxer Johann Trollmann, known as Rukeli, a symbol of resistance and identity. The story of Rukeli (which means “tree” in the Sinti language), persecuted by the Nazis, became for the young people involved in the project a symbol of resistance against all forms of discrimination. After their trip to Auschwitz, their daily experiences of anti-Gypsyism intertwined with that of Rukeli, who died in a camp in 1944. The association Chi Rom e… chi no chose to tell his story in an ensemble film, directed by Alessandro Rak. The film, born from artistic workshops with young Roma and Neapolitan students from the Galileo Ferraris Technical Institute in Scampia, denounces marginalization and affirms dignity and memory.

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Roma Camp in Naples

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Roma Camp in Naples

A tendentious article about Roma camps in Naples. The reality is described correctly, the background is totally ignored. Why Roma were parked in segregated camps overseen by the police, why the mafia was involved in this, and now, again, there is collective guilt of all Roma.

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Italy: Death of a Passerby

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Italy: Death of a Passerby

We already reported on it, but Roma youngsters stole a car from French tourists, and while fleeing, killed a 71-year-old passerby.  And of course, all Roma are guilty by association.

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Italy: An accident and Politics

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Italy: An accident and Politics

Four Roma children aged between 11 and 13 stole a car, raced through Milan, and ran over an elderly woman, killing her. The accident shocked the whole of Italy, partly because the children are Roma. Lega leader Salvini wants to demolish entire Roma camps.

On Social Media, Salvini wrote:  “The Roma camp must be cleared immediately, and then razed to the ground, after years of theft and violence, pseudo ‘parents’ must be arrested, and parental rights must be revoked. Mayor Sala and the left, are you there???”

Bad.

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Italy and Roma

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Italy and Roma

An article about the fact that parking Roma in camps or razing them is not going to resolve the issue and will not bring children to school. In fact, most children in those camps do not go to school at all.

Bad, but nothing new in Italy.

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Roma in Resistance

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Roma in Resistance

“One of Us. Roma and Sinti in the Resistance” is a podcast against anti-Gypsyism, proposed by the Carta di Roma Association and the Human Rights Foundation.

The document intended for students and addresses the issue of anti-Gypsyism to counter stereotypes that dehumanize an entire community and to remember the Roma and Sinti who fought for liberation from Nazi-fascism. “They did not fight for a homeland that discriminated against them,” explains Danilo De Biasio, author of the work, “they fought together with other Italians to bring back democracy.”

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Everest …

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Everest …

Gennaro Spinelli, an Italian Roma activist and artist, raised the Romani flag at the base camp of the Everest on April 30th. He gave an interview to Romea.

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Sinti and Roma Resistance

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Sinti and Roma Resistance

The Human Rights Foundation, in collaboration with Carta di Roma and the contribution of Unar National Office Against Racial Discrimination, has created a podcast to enhance the role that Roma and Sinti had in the Liberation. Starting from an extraordinary interview recovered from the Shoah Foundation by Amilcare Debar, a Sinto from Cuneo, partisan, battle name Corsaro.

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Rome – Demolitions

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Rome – Demolitions

A series of articles about the demolition of two villas in Rome belonging to “Sinti clans”. The houses were in violation of the building code and the legal proceedings go back to 2010.

As for the “Sinti clans”, well, there are a few doubts that these are “clans” and “Sinti”.

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Italy and Segregated Roma Camps

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Italy and Segregated Roma Camps

Following the intervention of Roma activists and the European Roma Rights Center, the Calabria region had to change the plan that envisaged the construction of segregated housing for Roma families with European money. At their instigation, the European Commission began to look into the case and the project was modified – instead of a new ghetto, Roma families are to be integrated into regular municipal housing. However, activists warn that the new version of the plan still has serious shortcomings.

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Rome: A New Course

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Rome: A New Course

At La Sapienza University of Rome, the course “Romani Language and Culture” will begin on March 5th. It aims to offer a complete overview of the language, traditions and history of the Romani population with a multidisciplinary approach that combines theory, practice and critical reflection. The course is aimed at students of humanities, social sciences and history, but also at anyone who wishes to deepen their knowledge of Romani culture and its current challenges, as well as all those who work in the field of cultural mediation, human rights and social inclusion.

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Sardinia: Students on the Genocide

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Sardinia: Students on the Genocide

A group of students from class 5I of the De Sanctis Deledda High School of Human Sciences (Martina Camplani, Martina Vacca, Martina Stefani, Benedetta Garau, Serena Sailis, Alessandro Spanu and Edoardo Fa), coordinated by teacher Franca Rita Porcu (teacher of Philosophy and Human Sciences), created an educational project, based precisely on the podcast tool, to reflect and reason on some of the genocides of history.

Besides the Shoah, the Tutsi, and the Native Americans, one of the episodes is devoted to Roma.

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Slovenia, Fascists, and Roma

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Slovenia, Fascists, and Roma

In Lonjer, a then entirely Slovenian village on the outskirts of Trieste, the fascist authorities interned six Roma and Sinti between September 1940 and September 1943. The fascists confined them there after the Italian Ministry of the Interior ordered all prefects on September 11, 1940, to register Roma who were citizens of Italy and to confine those without permanent residence.

This fact as well as others were presented by Paola Trevisan in the Gopčević Palace. The historian and anthropologist dedicated her first scientific monograph to the persecution of Roma and Sinti in fascist Italy, which she presented in Trieste as part of the events marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. The author was interviewed by historian Michele Sarfatti.

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