137 cases of anti-Roma racism and discrimination in Berlin in 2021.
Romani Rose, chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma denounces the racism shown by personnel from the Deutsche Bahn against Roma refugees from the Ukraine.
Especially the German train company should be somewhat cautious in this matter…
A description of the racist incident in the Manheim train station.
There is an increase of attacks and aggressions against Roma in Berlin.
Bad.
Near a Roma camp in the north of France, there are pestilential odours, which according to Roma activists have nothing to do with the Roma and the camp. Two camps evacuated near Paris, one in Argenteuil, one in Compans, the later with a huge amount of garbage.
An exhibition titled “Last Seen” shows pictures of people shortly before they were deported by the Nazis.
Several Roma refugees from the Ukraine arrived in Freiburg, Germany.
Seems that the Hamburg politics has an anti-Roma racism issue.
A portrait of a Romano activist.
The English version of the article on Romeo Franz, a Green EU MP and a Sinto.
The City of Freiburg is organising help for refugees from the Ukraine, also for Roma.
Romani Rose has been chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma since 1982, that is for 40 years. Born in Heidelberg, he received a lot of recognition for his commitment to fighting discrimination. However, Romani Rose still sees prejudices against Sinti and Roma in society. The 75-year-old comes from a Sinti family. 13 members of his family were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. With the Heidelberg Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose commemorates the Nazi genocide of the European Sinti and Roma.
Not many news this week. Roma abandoned a camp near Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport; an exhibition on Roma slavery in Romania in Nantes; the controversial “transition” village near Montpellier is ready; and a clean-up needed after the closure of a camp near Paris.
In the context of the “Eastern Neighbours Film Festival”, an encounter with three Romnja directors.
Th European Member of Parliament Romeo Franz, a Sinto, is the EU representative for Bosnia and Hercegovina and warns of the potential of further conflicts in the Western Balkans.
An article about “Ukrainian” (sic.!) refugees complaining being housed in a gym and who are allegedly Roma, not necessarily from the Ukraine.
If you write such articles, you should (a) know what you are talking about and (b) not make allegations that can neither be proved nor disproved. If the refugees had a Ukrainian ID, they are from the Ukraine. If they are not, it is also pretty easy to know, as they will not speak Ukrainian or Russian.
Crap journalism.
A movie on the Sinti and Roma movement that led to the recognition of the Holocaust and beyond.
A convoy of buses is driving towards the Polish Ukrainian border with the aim of bringing back 170 refugees.
It has been 40 years since Germany acknowledged the Roma Holocaust. Nevertheless, discriminations still perdure.
Seems that the old plans of former mayor Raggi to close camps and relocate them are still being enforced. It also seems that the money is totally wasted, not helping relocating Roma.
Unfortunately not surprising.
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