A German priest, Arnold Fortuin, is being remembered by the Sinti community. During the Nazi times in Germany he protected many Sinti.
– Illingen erinnert sich an Arnold Fortuin. 21.08.2018. https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/neunkirchen/illingen/illingen-erinnert-sich-an-arnold-fortuin_aid-30087313 [link-preview url=”https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/neunkirchen/illingen/illingen-erinnert-sich-an-arnold-fortuin_aid-30087313″]
An exhibition on the fight for civil rights of Sinti and Roma is currently open in Göttingen, Germany.
– Ausstellung zu Kampf um die Bürgerrechte von Sinti und Roma. In: Göttinger Tagblatt. 19.08.2018. http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Die-Region/Goettingen/Ausstellung-zu-Sinti-und-Roma-in-der-BBS-Goettingen [link-preview url=”http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Die-Region/Goettingen/Ausstellung-zu-Sinti-und-Roma-in-der-BBS-Goettingen”]
A young researcher from Göttingen in Germany has investigated the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism and comes out with a scathing review, saying Switzerland turns a blind eye on institutional racism and that the commission is actually fuelling it.
– Ist die Schweiz blind für Behörden-Rassismus? Das behauptet zumindest diese Forscherin. In: Watson. 19.08.2018. https://www.watson.ch/!519782544 [link-preview url=”https://www.watson.ch/!519782544″]
The town of Solihull, near Birmingham (UK), has published the costs of clean-up of travellers camps on the commune in the last two years. Not pretty. Bad to flout the costs, allowing the press to seize the opportunity to bash travellers, but also bad that such high costs are needed in the first place.
A better solution needs to be found.
– The total cost of every traveller camp clean-up in Solihull revealed. In: The Birmingham Mail. 18.08.2018. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/total-cost-every-traveller-camp-15033513 [link-preview url=”https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/total-cost-every-traveller-camp-15033513″]
An interesting reportage showing that the French Gitans – Catalan Roma in this case are being quietly expulsed from the parts of the town where they have lived for a very long time. This is definitively not advertised in France …
– Catalan Gypsies, Unique and Embattled, Resist as Homes Are Reduced to Rubble. In: The New York Times. 18.08.2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/world/europe/catalan-gypsies-perpignan-france.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/world/europe/catalan-gypsies-perpignan-france.html”]
Not that many news on Roma in France this week. Probably not because of a change of policies, rather still due to a summer pause in the press …
A camp in Lille will be closed on Monday, leaving 134 people without shelter. In Saint Denis, near Paris, a more constructive approach is being taken: Integration and education. And finally in Strasbourg, a squat was closed too.
– Les Roms du carrefour Pasteur à Lille expulsés lundi. In: Actu.fr. 18.08.2018. https://actu.fr/hauts-de-france/lille_59350/les-roms-carrefour-pasteur-lille-expulses-lundi_18212739.html
– Le camp rom du carrefour Pasteur de Lille sera évacué ce lundi. In: La Voix du Nord. 18.08.2018. http://lavdn.lavoixdunord.fr/433921/article/2018-08-18/le-camp-rom-du-carrefour-pasteur-de-lille-sera-evacue-ce-lundi
– A Lille, les Roms du Pont Pasteur expulsés lundi. In: France Bleu. 17.08.2018. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/a-lille-les-roms-du-pont-pasteur-expulses-lundi-1534517062
– Un hébergement qui “change la vie” pour des familles Roms de Saint-Denis. In: France Bleu. 19.08.2018. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/un-hebergement-qui-change-la-vie-pour-des-familles-roms-de-saint-denis-1531933218
– Le bidonville du square du Neuhof démantelé, la situation des migrants traitée au cas par cas. In: Rue89 Strasbourg. 17.08.2018. https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/situation-migrants-camp-square-neuhof-140863 [link-preview url=”https://actu.fr/hauts-de-france/lille_59350/les-roms-carrefour-pasteur-lille-expulses-lundi_18212739.html “]
This kind of news is really not positive. Focus making a reportage on Plovdiv, telling that a part of the town is now called “Dortmund”. So far nothing bad, but they put it in relation to the current polemic around children social help that is supposedly abused.
How about saying that many Roma from Plovdiv actually go and work in Germany …
– Bulgarischer Stadtteil wird “Dortmund” genannt: Welche Ausländer wie viel Kindergeld beziehen. In: Focus. 13.08.2018. https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/streit-um-staatliche-unterstuetzung-bulgarischer-stadtteil-wird-dortmund-genannt-welche-auslaender-wie-viel-kindergeld-beziehen_id_9410329.html [link-preview url=”https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/streit-um-staatliche-unterstuetzung-bulgarischer-stadtteil-wird-dortmund-genannt-welche-auslaender-wie-viel-kindergeld-beziehen_id_9410329.html”]
Alone the title of the paper “Deutsche Stimme” [German Voice] already gives the colour. But the text on the “problems” of Roma and on the measures that they are implicitly advocating is really bad.
– Sachsen-Anhalt: Klartext über Probleme mit den “Sinti und Roma”. In: Deutsche Stimme. 16.08.2018. https://deutsche-stimme.de/2018/08/17/sachsen-anhalt-klartext-ueber-probleme-mit-den-sinti-und-roma/ [link-preview url=”https://deutsche-stimme.de/2018/08/17/sachsen-anhalt-klartext-ueber-probleme-mit-den-sinti-und-roma/”]
During the night of the 29th of July, a shooting wounding 7 people was attributed by several newspapers to Roma travellers.
It turns out this was absolutely not the case. A very good analysis of the true facts.
– Tirs de Beaune : comment une rumeur a accusé à tort les gens du voyage. In: Le Monde. 16.08.2018. https://abonnes.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/08/16/tirs-de-beaune-comment-une-rumeur-a-accuse-a-tort-les-gens-du-voyage_5343167_4355770.html#xtor=AL-32280270? [link-preview url=”https://abonnes.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/08/16/tirs-de-beaune-comment-une-rumeur-a-accuse-a-tort-les-gens-du-voyage_5343167_4355770.html#xtor=AL-32280270?”]
An interview with Anina Ciuciu, Romni from Romania who lives in France and was a candidate to the French Senate during the last elections.
– ROMA-AKTIVISTIN SPRICHT ÜBER DISKRIMINIERUNG. In: Roma Anti Discrimination Network. 1.08.2018. http://ran.eu.com/roma-aktivistin-spricht-uber-diskriminierung/ [link-preview url=”http://ran.eu.com/roma-aktivistin-spricht-uber-diskriminierung/”]
The descendants of an Auschwitz survivor were recently harassed and threatened in Zetel in Northern Germany.
– Sinti wurden in Zetel rassistisch angefeindet. In: NWZ Online. 14.08.2018. https://www.nwzonline.de/friesland/politik/zetel-entsetzen-in-friesland-sinti-wurden-in-zetel-rassistisch-angefeindet_a_50,2,971417785.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nwzonline.de/friesland/politik/zetel-entsetzen-in-friesland-sinti-wurden-in-zetel-rassistisch-angefeindet_a_50,2,971417785.html”]
If you need any proof that Breitbart and Salvini pander to racists and the extreme right, read this. A single crime does not brand an entire ethnic group as thieves and worse.
– Salvini: ‘No Room’ For Roma Who Robbed Elderly Disabled Woman of Her Pension. In: Breitbart. 15.08.2018. https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/15/salvini-no-room-for-roma-who-robbed-elderly-disabled-woman-of-her-pension/ [link-preview url=”https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/15/salvini-no-room-for-roma-who-robbed-elderly-disabled-woman-of-her-pension/”]
A long article on the Casamonica mafia family who happens to be a Sinti family. This reinforces the common view of Roma (although eh article claim that Sinti are a different ethnic group) …
Bad.
– Le ville dei Casamonica come in Scarface e il tesoro milionario dei Sinti. In: Le Iene. 14.08.2018. https://www.iene.mediaset.it/2018/news/casamonica-zingari-sinti-ville-sfarzo-30-milioni-cerveteri-furti-appartamento_162465.shtml [link-preview url=”https://www.iene.mediaset.it/2018/news/casamonica-zingari-sinti-ville-sfarzo-30-milioni-cerveteri-furti-appartamento_162465.shtml”]
After the polemic on Roma and abuse of childcare money, Bild, one of the boulevard newspaper of courses produces a reportage with all stereotypes.
Shame on them.
– So leben wir vom deutschen Kindergeld. In: Bild. 12.08.2018. https://www.bild.de/news/ausland/bulgarien/ein-ganzer-stadtteil-heisst-hier-dortmund-56646012.bild.html [link-preview url=”https://www.bild.de/news/ausland/bulgarien/ein-ganzer-stadtteil-heisst-hier-dortmund-56646012.bild.html”]
Many more reactions to the statement by the mayor of Duisburg, Sörensen Link, who stated that many Roma come to Germany to abuse the child welfare system. Roma are asking the SPD, Link’s party, to distance themselves from these statements.
– Sinti und Roma empören sich über Link. In: NTV. 13.08.2018. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Sinti-und-Roma-empoeren-sich-ueber-Link-article20571190.html
– Sinti und Roma empört über Duisburgs Oberbürgermeister. In: RP Online. 14.08.,2018. https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duisburg/duisburg-sinti-und-roma-empoert-ueber-ob-soeren-link_aid-24350279
– “RASSISTISCH”! SINTI UND ROMA EMPÖRT ÜBER DUISBURGS OB, NAHLES SOLL DURCHGREIFEN. In: Tag 24. 13.08.2018. https://www.tag24.de/nachrichten/berlin-zentralrat-sinti-roma-fordert-konsequenzen-spd-chefin-nahles-aussagen-ob-link-duisburg-729584
– Sinti und Roma empört über Duisburgs OB Link. In: WDR. 13.08.2018. https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/landespolitik/sinti-roma-empoert-ueber-duisburgs-ob-100.html
– SPD soll sich von Duisburgs Oberbürgermeister distanzieren. In: Deutschland Funk. 13.08.2018. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/zentralrat-der-sinti-und-roma-spd-soll-sich-von-duisburgs.2932.de.html?drn:news_id=913806
– SPD lanciert ausländerfeindliche Kindergeld-Kampagne. In: World Socialist Web Site. 13.08.2018. https://www.wsws.org/de/articles/2018/08/13/kind-a13.html [link-preview url=”https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Sinti-und-Roma-empoeren-sich-ueber-Link-article20571190.html “]
There have been a series of manifestations against the policies of the current Italian government and racism all over Europe.
– Des Roms manifestent à travers l’Europe contre le racism. In: Le Monde. 10.08.2018. https://abonnes.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2018/08/10/des-roms-manifestent-a-travers-l-europe-contre-le-racisme_5341205_3214.html [link-preview url=”https://abonnes.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2018/08/10/des-roms-manifestent-a-travers-l-europe-contre-le-racisme_5341205_3214.html”]
A critical analysis (in French and Spanish) of the movie “A bras ouverts” directed by Christian Clavier. The movie was controversial when it came out in France a while back due to its stereotypical portraying of Roma.
– Film « À bras ouverts » ou le mythe de l’authenticité rom ? In: Pressenza. 07.08.2018. https://www.pressenza.com/fr/2018/08/film-a-bras-ouverts-ou-le-mythe-de-lauthenticite-rom/
– ¿Película “Con los brazos abiertos” o el mito de la autenticidad romaní? In: Pressenza. 08.08.2018. https://www.pressenza.com/es/2018/08/pelicula-con-los-brazos-abiertos-o-el-mito-de-la-autenticidad-romani/ [link-preview url=”https://www.pressenza.com/fr/2018/08/film-a-bras-ouverts-ou-le-mythe-de-lauthenticite-rom/ “]
The polemic on the German child benefits reached the Balkan Press …
– Romanians, Bulgarians Accused of Abusing German Child Benefits. In: Balkan Insight. 10.08.2018. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/romanians-and-bulgarians-targeted-as-benefits-abusers-in-germany-again-08-10-2018 [link-preview url=”http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/romanians-and-bulgarians-targeted-as-benefits-abusers-in-germany-again-08-10-2018″]
One the perils of outing oneself, when one is Rom.
– “Wer sich outet, hat Nachteile”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 10.08.2018. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/minderheit-unbekannte-nachbarn-1.4088880 [link-preview url=”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/minderheit-unbekannte-nachbarn-1.4088880″]
A review of a book “Gypsies: An English History” by David Cressy.
– Review: Gypsies: An English History by David Cressy — this ‘ragged, rabblement of rakehells’. 11.08.2018. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-gypsies-an-english-history-by-david-cressy-this-ragged-rabblement-of-rakehells-0hqhqmwxs [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-gypsies-an-english-history-by-david-cressy-this-ragged-rabblement-of-rakehells-0hqhqmwxs”]
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