What can be done against antigypsyism? The Jewish intellectual Micha Brumlik calls for the fight against it to be anchored in the state constitutions as a goal.
An interview with Denijen Pauljević, a young Roma author who just wrote a radio play: Munich – a cosmopolitan city with a heart? Not at all, says the young Romni Ramisa in the play. This is about anger, exclusion and the unsuccessful search for home.
Montpellier makes the headline this week. The city is dismantling Roma camps, and is setting aside a 10 ha site to relodge part of the Roma, resulting in protests from the neighbours of the selected land. They should better find a permanent solution rather than these idiotic measures.
Other news: A new camp in the Rhine valley in N Village-Neuf; a new squat in the former Orange building near Paris; and the usual criminal fact with two young Roma arrested near Nantes for theft.
Bouguenais : trois mineurs arrêtés après deux agressions en pleine rue. In: France Bleu. 04.01.2022. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/bouguenais-trois-mineurs-arretes-apres-deux-agressions-en-pleine-rue-1641302153
Yet another case of insulting players calling one “Gypsy”. When will football tackle this?
Seems that in spite of what has been said and pushed by conservatives, most Travellers camping sites last summer were legal …
There is a “Gypsy Musical Academy” in Italy, and no, it has nothing to do with Roma. It is a school for artists who want to go into musicals.
An article about the four new openly Roma Members of Parliament in Spain.
Very few news on Roma this week in France (always a good thing). First, a report on racism against Roma in France and worrying statistics. A theatre play in the South of France. A comic strip on an Ursari family who comes to France. More political, Roma in Ivry, near Paris, are protesting in front of the Prefecture. And finally, a clean-up operation on the site of a former Roma camp near Paris.
The Italian press is full of the story of an altercation of a Serbian footballer Sinisa Mihajlovic who clashed with the Italian police after being insulted as a “Gypsy” …
The Italian justice is now tackling the anti-Roma riots that took place recently in Rome.
An essay on people’s views of what a Rom should look like.
Salvini conceded that 17 people were cited for anti-Roma protests, and stated he would not tolerate violence.
Well…
The analogy between fascism and Salvini’s stance on Roma.
A huge police action took place in Belgium. Its aim was to dismantle a vast con network that was involved in scams with used cars. During the operation, cars but also caravans were confiscated.
– “Ils nous ont pris nos caravanes et nous ont laissés sur le trottoir”: la communauté rom dénonce l’opération policière. In: BX1. 09.05.2019. https://bx1.be/news/ils-nous-ont-pris-nos-caravanes-et-nous-ont-laisses-sur-le-trottoir-la-communaute-rom-denonce-loperation-policiere/
– Vaste opération policière en Belgique: le porte-parole des Gitans arrêté. In: Le Soir. 10.05.2019. https://www.lesoir.be/223546/article/2019-05-10/vaste-operation-policiere-en-belgique-le-porte-parole-des-gitans-arrete [link-preview url=”https://bx1.be/news/ils-nous-ont-pris-nos-caravanes-et-nous-ont-laisses-sur-le-trottoir-la-communaute-rom-denonce-loperation-policiere/ “]
The French news this week were overwhelmingly reporting about the issues in Italy where riots erupted after a Roma family was allocated a flat in a social housing. Many articles in the catholic French press on the pope and his intervention, but also about the overall situation of Roma. And otherwise, the beginning of the Ramadan for Moslem Roma and only two news on camps, one in the North, in Wattrelos, and in Grenoble.
– Le pape manifeste son soutien aux personnes roms victimes de discrimination. In: La Croix. 11.05.2019. https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/Pape/Le-pape-manifeste-soutien-personnes-roms-victimes-discrimination-2019-05-11-1201021045
– L’Europe est l’espoir des Roms. In: La Croix. 12.05.2019. https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Europe/LEurope-lespoir-Roms-2019-05-12-1201021176
– Le pape dénonce les tensions à Rome autour d’une famille rom en HLM. In: TV5 Monde. 09.05.2019. https://information.tv5monde.com/info/le-pape-denonce-les-tensions-rome-autour-d-une-famille-rom-en-hlm-299416
– L’attribution d’un HLM à une famille de Roms attise la tension. In: Le Courrier International. 09.05.2019. https://www.courrierinternational.com/revue-de-presse/italie-lattribution-dun-hlm-une-famille-de-roms-attise-la-tension
– Pape François: les Roms ne sont pas des “citoyens de seconde classe”. In: Cath.ch. 09.05.2019. https://www.cath.ch/newsf/pape-francois-les-roms-ne-sont-pas-des-citoyens-de-seconde-classe/
– Un groupe de Roms reçu par le Pape pour un temps de prière. In: Vatican News. 09.05.2019. https://www.vaticannews.va/fr/pape/news/2019-05/pape-francois-rencontre-priere-roms-sinte-vatican.html
– À Nantes, l’Europe bute sur l’intégration des Roms. In: Ouest France. 10.05.2019. https://larochesuryon.maville.com/sortir/infos_-a-nantes-l-europe-bute-sur-l-integration-des-roms_fil-3716819_actu.Htm
– Fête du ramadan à Clichy-sous-Bois : la main tendue des musulmans aux Roms. In: Le Parisien. 10.05.2019. http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-saint-denis-93/clichy-sous-bois-on-n-a-jamais-eu-de-probleme-avec-les-roms-10-05-2019-8069457.php
– Wattrelos Le camp de Roms du Sartel, une histoire sans fin. In: La Voix du Nord. 07.05.2019. https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/579468/article/2019-05-07/le-camp-de-roms-du-sartel-une-histoire-sans-fin
– Le Bidonville du terrain Courtade de Fontaine a été évacué et rasé vendredi 3 au matin. In: Place Grenet. 06.05.2019. https://www.placegrenet.fr/2019/05/06/bidonville-courtade-fontaine-evacuation/241234 [link-preview url=”https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/Pape/Le-pape-manifeste-soutien-personnes-roms-victimes-discrimination-2019-05-11-1201021045 “]
The Family of Roma at the centre of the controversy and the mob in Rome are Bosnian Roma.
– Pope Backs Bosnian Roma Family Against Italian Rightists. In: Balkan Insights. 10.05.2019. https://balkaninsight.com/2019/05/10/bosnian-roma-family-defy-italian-rightist-protests/ [link-preview url=”https://balkaninsight.com/2019/05/10/bosnian-roma-family-defy-italian-rightist-protests/”]
In the context of the International Roma day, two articles in the German Press.
– “Unbeliebteste Minderheit in Europa”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 08.04.2019. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/sinti-roma-deutschland-diskriminierung-1.4400004
– Experte fordert Bleibeperspektive für Sinti und Roma. In: MiGazin. 09.04.2019. http://www.migazin.de/2019/04/09/strukturelle-diskriminierungen-experte-bleibeperspektive-sinti/ [link-preview url=”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/sinti-roma-deutschland-diskriminierung-1.4400004 “]
The chairman of the German Council of Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, spoke on April 8th about the dangers of thinking along racial lines and of the dangers of extremism.
– Sinti und Roma warnen vor „völkischem Denken“. In: DLF 24. 09.04.2019. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/welt-roma-tag-sinti-und-roma-warnen-vor-voelkischem-denken.2849.de.html?drn:news_id=995258 [link-preview url=”https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/welt-roma-tag-sinti-und-roma-warnen-vor-voelkischem-denken.2849.de.html?drn:news_id=995258″]
A Labour councillor in the UK made a comment on social media stating that “Hitler had the right idea” about travellers.
He certainly has turned his brain off at some point.
– Labour councillor denies Facebook Hitler remark. In: BBC News. 08.04.2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-47853418 [link-preview url=”https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-47853418″]
Bad …
– Spanish police brutally end street fight between Roma travellers with vicious kicks, punches and baton charges in shocking footage taken in a busy Madrid square. In: Daily Mail. 09.04.2019. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6902755/Spanish-police-break-vicious-fight-Roma-travellers.html [link-preview url=”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6902755/Spanish-police-break-vicious-fight-Roma-travellers.html”]
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