An interview of the young law student and Romni, Anina Ciuciu who is a candidate to the French senate. A first for a magazine like “Elle”.
GOOD!
– Anina Ciuciu : « Au Sénat, je ne serai pas la Rom de service » in: Elle. 17.08.2017. http://www.elle.fr/Societe/Interviews/Anina-Ciuciu-Au-Senat-je-ne-serai-pas-la-rom-de-service-3520208 [link-preview url=”http://www.elle.fr/Societe/Interviews/Anina-Ciuciu-Au-Senat-je-ne-serai-pas-la-rom-de-service-3520208″]
Holidays are over, and Roma are back in the news … In Angers, in Western France, a camp will probably dismantled; in Nantes, the municipality is voting an action plan for Roma; in Salliers; a Nazi Swastika was painted on the site of the former Roma concentration camp; in Montreuil. 13 families are still on the street, one year after having been expulsed; in Paris, on the Porte de la Chapelle, the 35th expulsion (yes) just took place; near Paris, an illegal dump is allegedly created by Roma; in the North, in Lille, people bemoan the insecurity with beggars and others near the railway station; and finally, in Strasbourg, there is a potential case of tuberculosis in a camp.
– Angers Le camp des Roms menacé d’expulsion rue du Maine. In: Le Courrier de l’Ouest. 17.08.2017. http://www.courrierdelouest.fr/actualite/angers-le-camp-des-roms-menace-d-expulsion-rue-du-maine-17-08-2017-328166
– Nantes Métropole Un plan d’action pour les Roms. In: Presse Océan. 17.08.2017. http://www.presseocean.fr/actualite/nantes-metropole-un-plan-daction-pour-les-roms-17-08-2017-241923
– Elle est où, l’horreur? In: Médiapart. 19.08.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/190817/elle-est-ou-lhorreur
– Montreuil, épicétout. In: Médiapart. 17.08.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/170817/montreuil-epicetout
– Porte de la Chapelle: c’est la 35ème évacuation! In: Médiapart. 18.08.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/arthur-porto/blog/180817/porte-de-la-chapelle-cest-la-35eme-evacuation
– Carrières-sous-Poissy – Triel : la plaine transformée en vaste décharge à ciel ouvert. In: Le Parisien. 16.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/triel-sur-seine-78510/carrieres-sous-poissy-triel-la-plaine-transformee-en-vaste-decharge-a-ciel-ouvert-16-08-2017-7196004.php
– L’insécurité autour de la gare Lille-Flandres inquiète riverains et commerçants. In: Nord Éclair. 14.08.2017. http://www.nordeclair.fr/82993/article/2017-08-14/l-insecurite-autour-de-la-gare-lille-flandres-inquiete-riverains-et-commercants
– Strasbourg : suspicion d’un cas de tuberculose dans un camp de migrants. In: FR3 Grand Est. 14.08.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/grand-est/bas-rhin/strasbourg-0/suspicion-cas-tuberculose-camp-refugies-1311273.html [link-preview url=”https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/190817/elle-est-ou-lhorreur “]
A study on the integration of Roma in Eastern UK is being helped by several Roma of the community.
– Community champions from Roma gypsy communities in Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Luton, Peterborough and Southend to help Fenland Council in £150,000 study. In: The Wisbech Standard. 17.08.2017. http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/community-champions-from-roman-gypsy-communities-in-great-yarmouth-ipswich-luton-peterborough-and-southend-to-help-fenland-council-in-150-000-study-1-5153629 [link-preview url=”http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/community-champions-from-roman-gypsy-communities-in-great-yarmouth-ipswich-luton-peterborough-and-southend-to-help-fenland-council-in-150-000-study-1-5153629″]
An Italian article about Roma thieves who use beautiful and well-dressed woman to enter palaces and rob the places, or simply to steal tourists. The clan is apparently successful, for they all live in luxurious villas in the East of Rome.
Bad publicity for all.
– La banda delle “veline” rom: si fingono turiste e si intrufolano nei palazzi di Roma. In: Secolo l’Italia. 12.08.2017. http://www.secoloditalia.it/2017/08/la-banda-delle-veline-rom-si-fingono-turiste-e-si-intrufolano-nei-palazzi-di-roma/ [link-preview url=”http://www.secoloditalia.it/2017/08/la-banda-delle-veline-rom-si-fingono-turiste-e-si-intrufolano-nei-palazzi-di-roma/”]
Italian Romnja are taking their future in their own hands and are fighting against discrimination, racism, and stereotypes.
Good!
– “Change can start from us”: Roma women in Italy fight for their rights. In: Open Democracy – 50.50. 16.08.2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/claudia-torrisi/roma-women-rights-italy [link-preview url=”https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/claudia-torrisi/roma-women-rights-italy”]
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/”]
A report on the “Stolpersteine” in Salzburg, the small stones on the pavement commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. In Salzburg, there are a dozen of stones devoted to Roma, even though they were the largest victim group in that city.
Needless to say, these memorials are still controversial in Austria.
– Austrians tread carefully as underfoot Holocaust memorials remain controversial. In: The Times of Israel. 11.08.2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/austrians-tread-carefully-as-underfoot-holocaust-memorials-remain-controversial/ [link-preview url=”http://www.timesofisrael.com/austrians-tread-carefully-as-underfoot-holocaust-memorials-remain-controversial/”]
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”]
Welsh travellers in Cardiff are billed up to three time the average water costs of a family in Wales… Really?
– People on a Cardiff traveller site are angry they pay three times more for water than an average home. In: Wales Online. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/people-cardiff-traveller-site-angry-13461715 [link-preview url=”http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/people-cardiff-traveller-site-angry-13461715″]
An article about the “fear of the Gypsies” in Germany, following the arrival of Irish Travellers in Düsseldorf.
– Die Angst vor dem “Zigeuner” In: RP Online. 12.08.2017. http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irish-traveller-die-angst-vor-dem-zigeuner-aid-1.7007763 [link-preview url=”http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irish-traveller-die-angst-vor-dem-zigeuner-aid-1.7007763″]
Shahak Shapira did an action in front of the Twitter Headquarters in Germany: he printed many racist comments found in Twitter about which he regularly complained on the pavement. Watch …
– This artist graffitied the worst tweets he could find, right outside Twitter’s office. In: Upworthy.com. 11.08.2017. http://www.upworthy.com/this-artist-graffitied-the-worst-tweets-he-could-find-right-outside-twitters-office
– Israeli artist trolls Twitter with hate graffiti outside headquarters in Hamburg. In: i24. 08.08.2017. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/152526-170809-german-artist-trolls-twitter-with-hate-graffiti-outside-headquarters-in-hamburg [link-preview url=”https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/152526-170809-german-artist-trolls-twitter-with-hate-graffiti-outside-headquarters-in-hamburg”]
And here we go. Father sells his daughter into slavery in the UK. And this in the Times.
BAD.
– Roma girl, 12, was sold by father to work for British family. In: The Times. 11.08.2017. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/roma-girl-12-was-sold-by-father-to-work-for-british-family-bm0v57pgw [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/roma-girl-12-was-sold-by-father-to-work-for-british-family-bm0v57pgw”]
A German article on Irish Travellers. Why? Simply because they travel way beyond the borders of Ireland and are often to be seen iN Germany and Switzerland over the summer.
– Wer sind die Irish Travellers? In: RP Online. 11.08.2017. http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irische-landfahrer-in-duesseldorf-wer-sind-die-mysterioesen-travellers-aid-1.6998811 [link-preview url=”http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irische-landfahrer-in-duesseldorf-wer-sind-die-mysterioesen-travellers-aid-1.6998811″]
A testimony of travelling Roma in the UK and the issues they face, especially in Leeds.
– ‘I’m a Roma Gypsy – and a proud and responsible Loiner – and I’m fed up of all the negativity about my community’ In: The Yorkshire Evening Post. 09.08.2017. http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/i-m-a-roma-gypsy-and-a-proud-and-responsible-loiner-and-i-m-fed-up-of-all-the-negativity-about-my-community-1-8694300 [link-preview url=”http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/i-m-a-roma-gypsy-and-a-proud-and-responsible-loiner-and-i-m-fed-up-of-all-the-negativity-about-my-community-1-8694300″]
The traditional Roma pilgrimage of Mariazell in Austria will be taking place next Sunday, August 13th.
– Traditionelle Roma-Wallfahrt mit Weihbischof Scharl nach Mariazell. In: Mariazell.at. 07.08.2017. http://www.mariazell.at/2017/08/07/traditionelle-roma-wallfahrt-mit-weihbischof-scharl-nach-mariazell-475/ [link-preview url=”http://www.mariazell.at/2017/08/07/traditionelle-roma-wallfahrt-mit-weihbischof-scharl-nach-mariazell-475/”]
Tips for social workers working with Roma… And lots of stereotypes in them.
– Tips for social workers supporting east-European Roma families. In: Community Care. 04.08.2017. http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/08/04/tips-social-workers-supporting-east-european-roma-families/ [link-preview url=”http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/08/04/tips-social-workers-supporting-east-european-roma-families/”]
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”]
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