Germany is housing refugees in the former concentration camp of Buchenwald. Really.
France was put at the same level as Bulgaria by a UN report slamming those two countries for forced evictions of Rroma.
SHAME!!!
Bulgaria and Sweden are talking about migrants and poverty and Sweden is hoping to improve the living conditions of Rroma there.
Let’s see… Sweden’s agreement with Romania did not do much.
France has been slammed by the UN for the systematic eviction of Rroma camps. The UN stresses that a more inclusive and integrative policy might be a better alternative.
The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister went overboard and demonstrated that he must have been “under the bridge” as on say in the Balkans. 15% of beggars in Sweden are of Bulgarian origins. This is real statistic. If there are 200 beggars there, this is probably a lot.
NO NEWS!!!!
More and more Hungarian Rroma are now being granted asylum in Canada. Now almost 69% obtain it whereas a few years back, it was almost impossible.
The ex general secretary of the CDU (conservative), Heiner Geissler, stated that Rroma from the Balkan should be granted asylum, as they are systematically discriminated against.
BRAVO!
The movie on Romanian Rroma slavery, Aferim, on which we have already repeatedly reported is a potential oscar contender.
Nice!
17 Rroma are on trial in Paris for having pick-pocketed tourists in the capital. Some of them are accused to have transferred back as much as 700’000 EUR. A lot of money.
Again, is it relevant that they are Rroma? If guilty, they are criminals. Ethnicity has nothing to do with this. At most, the fact that they had very little other opportunities in their home countries.
Das Boot ist voll – the ship is full is an argument that has been used since a long time to avoid taking care of refugees, and, in the case of Germany, also to avoid having any Rroma around.
A chilling reading.
The French Front National got caught in a fake Twitter account story used to spread racists tweets, among them (see the bottom of the article) against Rroma.
SHAME!
Manes Bernardini from Bologna, again went overboard: He qualified the city of Bologna as a “Zingaropoli” – a “Gypsy Metrople”. He was slammed by the anti-discrimination council anf given a yellow card.
This is not the fist time that Bernardini uses populist anti-Rroma rhetoric. This has to STOP!
In an interview, a representative of the UNHCR slammed France for having chosen the worst possible solution in closing the camp in la Courneuve.
Well said!
Several newspapers reported that one of the suspects in the death of more than 70 migrants who died in a truck in Austria is a Rrom from Bulgaria.
We ask: Is it relevant? NO, ethnicity has nothing to do with this. This was started by the Swiss magazine le Temps and promptly re-taken by a few others.
During the second Rroma cultural festival in Dortmund, young Rroma took part in a round table aimed at reducing stereotypes. They spoke about their lives, and clearly, these do not conform to the stereotypes. This can be felt in the article, as the journalist has trouble accepting that this is the norm and not the exception.
The exceptions are the ones the press speak about all the time!
We like this … Well Done.
Salzburg joins a series of cities forbidding begging. This measure is more of a populist move than an actual solution. How can one forbid poverty? This is actually what these cities are trying to do.
An opinion piece on the walls that are being erected in various places like Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia, sometimes to prevent people from going in, but also, as in Slovakia, to segregate Rroma.
SCARY
The anti foreigner attitude is common in the whole of Germany according to a recent research. This attitude extends to Rroma and Sinti who are, after all often enough Germans too!
SCARY
In spite of all fears following the blockade of the highway, the funerals of the Rroma victims of the shooting in the North of France in Royes happened without any problems. Once again, the Hype of the press … Notice the picture !!!!
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