A man was sentenced to ten month of jail in Berlin for an attack against Roma and Sinti.
Good!
– Mann in Berlin für Angriff auf Sinti und Roma zu Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt. In: Die Zeit. 16.10.2018. https://www.zeit.de/news/2018-10/16/mann-in-berlin-fuer-angriff-auf-sinti-und-roma-zu-gefaengnisstrafe-verurteilt-20181016-doc-1a23lu [link-preview url=”https://www.zeit.de/news/2018-10/16/mann-in-berlin-fuer-angriff-auf-sinti-und-roma-zu-gefaengnisstrafe-verurteilt-20181016-doc-1a23lu”]
A Roma Organisation was accused of having charged for benefits advices. This accusation has been dropped and an apology issued.
The accusations originally come from Roma themselves who later were unwilling to make formal depositions.
– Roma community group gets apology from Belfast Health Trust. In: BBC. 17.10.2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-45895356 [link-preview url=”https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-45895356″]
A reportage on what it means to be Rom and confronted with violence against Roma.
– Brennender Hass. In: Die Zeit. 17.10.2018. https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-10/gewalt-roma-rassismus-antiziganismus-brandanschlag-koeln-gremberg-1994?wt_zmc=sm.ext.zonaudev.mail.ref.zeitde.share.link.x [link-preview url=”https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-10/gewalt-roma-rassismus-antiziganismus-brandanschlag-koeln-gremberg-1994?wt_zmc=sm.ext.zonaudev.mail.ref.zeitde.share.link.x”]
The trend is holding. Much less news on Roma lately in France. An article on schooling of Roma children in Marseilles; the closure of a squat in the same city; a conference on Roma and work in Toulouse; an integration attempt in the North in Lille; a mayor protesting the creation of an insertion village in his village; the same mayor trying to close an illegal camp; a camp closure near Paris; and finally a sordid extortion scheme that was run by Roma in Nantes.
– Marseille. VIDEO: Elle se bat pour défendre la scolarité des enfants de roms expulses. In: France 3 Régions. 11.10.2018. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/marseille/marseille-video-elle-se-bat-defendre-scolarite-enfants-roms-expulses-1556690.html
– Marseille : la caserne Masséna évacuée. In: La Marseillaise. 08.10.2018. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/marseille/flash/72626-marseille-la-caserne-massena-evacuee
– “La réussite professionnelle des Roms” – Conférence à Toulouse. In: Toulouse 7. 12.10.2018. https://www.toulouse7.com/2018/10/12/la-reussite-professionnelle-des-roms-conference-a-toulouse-2/
– Le « sas Roms » bientôt prêt à accueillir les trois familles du Pont-Royal. In: La Voix du Nord. 13.10.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/468410/article/2018-10-13/le-sas-roms-bientot-pret-accueillir-les-trois-familles-du-pont-royal
– Ne pas ajouter misère à pauvreté. In: Nord Éclair. 13.10.2018. http://www.nordeclair.fr/195794/article/2018-10-13/ne-pas-ajouter-misere-pauvrete
– Camp rom du Sartel: le maire prêt à aller en justice contre l’État. In: La Voix du Nord. 10.10.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/466560/article/2018-10-10/camp-rom-du-sartel-le-maire-pret-aller-en-justice-contre-l-etat
– Vigneux-sur-Seine : les Roms vont être évacués du plan d’eau. In: Évasions. 11.10.2018. https://www.evasionfm.com/actualite-38504-vigneux-sur-seine-les-roms-vont-etre-evacues-du-plan-d-eau.html
– Vigneux-sur-Seine : la justice ordonne l’évacuation du bidonville de la fosse Montalbot. In: Le Parisien. 10.10.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/vigneux-sur-seine-91270/vigneux-sur-seine-la-justice-ordonne-l-evacuation-du-bidonville-de-la-fosse-montalbot-10-10-2018-7915884.php
– Nantes Séquestration et viol : les victimes étaient appâtées sur internet. In: Presse Océan. 12.10.2018. https://www.presseocean.fr/actualite/nantes-sequestration-et-viol-les-victimes-etaient-appatees-sur-internet-12-10-2018-284106 [link-preview url=”https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/marseille/marseille-video-elle-se-bat-defendre-scolarite-enfants-roms-expulses-1556690.html “]
Once again, the German NPD party (extreme right) uses its famous poster: “Money for grandma instead for Sinti and Roma”. The real shame is that the courts did not condemn this poster.
– Aufregung über NPD-Plakate in Gießen. In: Alsfelder Allgemeine. 12.10.2018. https://www.alsfelder-allgemeine.de/regional/stadtgiessen/Stadt-Giessen-Aufregung-ueber-NPD-Plakate-in-Giessen;art71,498461 [link-preview url=”https://www.alsfelder-allgemeine.de/regional/stadtgiessen/Stadt-Giessen-Aufregung-ueber-NPD-Plakate-in-Giessen;art71,498461″]
Two Roma rammed a police car after a burglary near Milan. Immediately, Salvini jumps on it…
Not much to say, except that a crime by a Rom is an accusation against all Roma.
– 2 Roma ram police car after burglary. In: ANSA. 12.10.2018. http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/10/12/2-roma-ram-police-car-after-burglary_526e02b6-7721-4832-bbbc-930ab2081f03.html [link-preview url=”http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/10/12/2-roma-ram-police-car-after-burglary_526e02b6-7721-4832-bbbc-930ab2081f03.html”]
The rape and murder of Viktoria Marinova, a journalist took yet another turn after it was reported that the suspect, a Bulgarian arrested in Germany, is apparently a Rom.
This was immediately seized by right wing politicians who anyhow speak about “Roma Terror”…
Bad.
– Marinova murder grist to mill of Bulgaria’s far-right politicians. In: The Sofia Globe. https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/10/12/marinova-murder-grist-to-mill-of-bulgarias-far-right-politicians/ [link-preview url=”https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/10/12/marinova-murder-grist-to-mill-of-bulgarias-far-right-politicians/”]
In order to resolve the current situation and improve the situation of Roma in Milan, Roma organisation are calling for a consultation with politicians and associations running the camps in an open letter.
– Un Incontro Con Sala: Rom E Sinti Vogliono Collaborare Per Quale Nuovo Progetto? In: Milano Post. 09.10.2018. https://www.milanopost.info/2018/10/09/un-incontro-con-sala-rom-e-sinti-vogliono-collaborare-per-quale-nuovo-progetto/ [link-preview url=”https://www.milanopost.info/2018/10/09/un-incontro-con-sala-rom-e-sinti-vogliono-collaborare-per-quale-nuovo-progetto/”]
The plight of a Roma family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is not pretty.
– Roma granny said children are traumatised by repeated attacks on their South Belfast home. In: Belfast Live. 09.10.2018. https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/roma-granny-said-children-traumatised-15256355 [link-preview url=”https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/roma-granny-said-children-traumatised-15256355″]
The Roma Documentation Centre in Heidelberg was handed over a collection of portraits of successful Roma made by the US photographer Chad Evans.
– Stolz und erfolgreich – trotz aller Widerstände. In: Rhein Nekar Zeitung. 12.10.2018. https://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/heidelberg_artikel,-heidelberg-stolz-und-erfolgreich-trotz-aller-widerstaende-_arid,392685.html [link-preview url=”https://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/heidelberg_artikel,-heidelberg-stolz-und-erfolgreich-trotz-aller-widerstaende-_arid,392685.html”]
What can you say when anti-Roma Nazi posters in German (yes) are plastered around a village in the South of the UK…
– Barns Green anti-gypsy posters spark police probe. In: BBC News. 08.10.2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45786710
– Nazi protest at Gypsies in Sussex village. In: The Times. 10.10.2018. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nazi-protest-at-gypsies-in-sussex-village-gcxgpztgq
– Gypsies and travellers condemn Barns Green posters. In: The Argus. 11.10.2018. https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16975701.gypsies-and-travellers-condemn-barns-green-posters/
– VILLAGE IDIOTS. ‘Anti-traveller’ posters written in German plastered all over quiet Sussex village. In: The Sun. 09.10.2018. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7451150/racist-anti-traveller-posters-written-in-german-plastered-all-over-quiet-sussex-village/ [link-preview url=”https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45786710 “]
An article in Le Monde on the Roma Holocaust and on the fact that it has been ignored for a long time. Only thing one should say, “Tsiganes” is not the right terminology …
– Le génocide oublié des Tziganes. In: Le Monde. 03.10.2018. https://www.lemonde.fr/long-format/article/2018/10/03/tziganes-le-genocide-oublie_5363736_5345421.html [link-preview url=”https://www.lemonde.fr/long-format/article/2018/10/03/tziganes-le-genocide-oublie_5363736_5345421.html”]
Still few news on Roma in France, let’s hope the trend continues. First article is devoted to the success of an “insertion village” in Lyon, a project to integrate Roma. Good! Then the more usual news of a fire in a camp in Bordeaux; a camp closed in Toulouse; camps closed near Paris; and finally, an article in Breizh-Info in the usual tone on the situation of bus drivers in Nantes.
– Près de Lyon, le pari “à 80% réussi” d’un village d’insertion de Roms. In: La Croix. 04.10.2018. https://www.la-croix.com/France/Pres-Lyon-pari-80-reussi-village-insertion-Roms-2018-10-04-1300973644
– Bordeaux : un incendie se déclare dans un camp de Roms à Villenave-d’Ornon. In: FR3 France Info. 01.10.2018. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/gironde/bordeaux/bordeaux-incendie-se-declare-camp-roms-villenave-ornon-1550650.html
– Toulouse : démantèlement d’un camp de roms dans le quartier Saint-Cyprien. In: FR3 France Info. 02.10.2018. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/toulouse-demantelement-camp-roms-quartier-saint-cyprien-1551026.html
– Essonne. 6 camps de Roms évacués le long de la RN 104. In: Actu.fr. 04.10.2018. https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/corbeil-essonnes_91174/essonne-6-camps-roms-evacues-long-rn-104_18903186.html
– Corbeil-Essonnes : des campements Rom évacués. In: Le Parisien. 05.10.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/actus/evacuation-campement-roms
– Nantes. Un conducteur de bus de nuit : «Pour la direction, seule compte l’exploitation, les conducteurs ils s’en fichent ». In: Breizh Info. https://www.breizh-info.com/2018/10/02/103253/nantes-bus-semitan-agressions [link-preview url=”https://www.la-croix.com/France/Pres-Lyon-pari-80-reussi-village-insertion-Roms-2018-10-04-1300973644 “]
A really strange story: Maria Kirstent was adopted by a Danish couple at the age of four. She does not speak Hungarian. Two years ago, a Danish television company trusted a journalist to look up her parents who were found in a Roma ghetto. This is the story of the meeting and a clash of civilisation.
– Semmire sem emlékszem a múltamból. In: Index. 05.10.2018. https://index.hu/belfold/2018/10/05/roma_orokbeadas_dania_kutatas/ [link-preview url=”https://index.hu/belfold/2018/10/05/roma_orokbeadas_dania_kutatas/”]
An essay on the far right in Europe and Roma.
– Roma population, an easy target of far-right. In: European Interest. 05.10.2018. https://www.europeaninterest.eu/article/roma-population-easy-target-far-right/ [link-preview url=”https://www.europeaninterest.eu/article/roma-population-easy-target-far-right/”]
A NYT article on Rosa Bouglionne who died recently at the age of 107.
– Rosa Bouglione, Doyenne of a French Circus Family, Dies at 107. In: New York Times. 04.10.2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/obituaries/rosa-bouglione-dead.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/obituaries/rosa-bouglione-dead.html”]
The German acknowledge it, the Swiss deny it: 600 years of Roma presence in the German speaking lands.
– 600 Jahre Roma in Frankfurt. In: ZDF. 01.10.2018. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-in-deutschland/600-jahre-roma-in-frankfurt-100.html [link-preview url=”https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-in-deutschland/600-jahre-roma-in-frankfurt-100.html”]
The trend holds. Very fe news on Roma this week in France.
Pictures of a Roma camp near Paris made the headline. They show the houses and the garbage filmed from a drone. In Montreuil, the mayor requisitioned housing for migrants, but not for Roma who have been expulsed a long while back. In the north, locals are asking for the closure of a camp while in the South East, in Grenoble, a camp is likely to be closed.
– Essonne : avec ses images aériennes, il interpelle les autorités sur la situation d’un bidonville. In: Le Parisien. 24.09.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/essonne-91/essonne-avec-ses-images-aeriennes-il-interpelle-les-autorites-sur-la-situation-d-un-bidonville-24-09-2018-7901208.php
– Essonne : Un campement rom vu du ciel à Bondoufle/Ris-Orangis. In: Le Républicain de l’Essonne. 26.09.2018. https://www.le-republicain.fr/actualites-locales/grand-paris-sud/essonne-un-campement-rom-vu-du-ciel-a-bondoufle-ris-orangis
– Essonne. Il dénonce la pollution d’un bidonville grâce à son drone. Ouest France. 25.09.2018. https://www.ouest-france.fr/ile-de-france/essonne/essonne-il-denonce-la-pollution-d-un-bidonville-grace-son-drone-5985018
– Montreuil solidaire, vraiment? In: Médiapart. 27.09.2018. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/270918/montreuil-solidaire-vraiment
– Les riverains de la rue du Plaisir demandent le départ des Roms. In: Nord Eclair. 26.09.2018. http://www.nordeclair.fr/191608/article/2018-09-26/les-riverains-de-la-rue-du-plaisir-demandent-le-depart-des-roms
– Fontaine : les Roms du terrain Courtade pourraient être expulses. In: Le Dauphiné. 29.09.2018. https://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/2018/09/29/fontaine-les-roms-du-terrain-courtade-pourraient-etre-expulses [link-preview url=”https://www.le-republicain.fr/actualites-locales/grand-paris-sud/essonne-un-campement-rom-vu-du-ciel-a-bondoufle-ris-orangis “]
A typical article from the Daily Mail about beggars. You could think that Oxford street is full of beggars…
– The Oxford Street ‘hugger muggers’: How aggressive ‘Fagin’ gangs are using children as young as THREE to target wealthy victims in the heart of London. In: Daly Mail. 27.09.2018. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6213719/Fagin-beggar-gangs-using-kids-aged-three-target-wealthy-victims-Londons-Oxford-Street.html [link-preview url=”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6213719/Fagin-beggar-gangs-using-kids-aged-three-target-wealthy-victims-Londons-Oxford-Street.html”]
The Slovenian Press started reporting on Salvini’s effort to close all Roma camps within five years in Italy.
– Italijanska vlada s strožjo zakonodajo nad mafijce, teroriste in migrante. In: RTV. 24.09.2018. https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/evropa/italijanska-vlada-s-strozjo-zakonodajo-nad-mafijce-teroriste-in-migrante/466856
– Salvini bi do konca mandata zaprl vsa nezakonita romska naselja. In: STA. 24.09.2018. https://www.sta.si/2556101/salvini-bi-do-konca-mandata-zaprl-vsa-nezakonita-romska-naselja [link-preview url=”https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/evropa/italijanska-vlada-s-strozjo-zakonodajo-nad-mafijce-teroriste-in-migrante/466856 “]
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