Roma and Sinti organisation in berlin hope for a breakthrough in the Berlin Senate leading to an extensive agreement between them and the city for bettering the situation of Sinti and Roma in Berlin.
– Ein Sprachrohr für Roma. In: ND. 16.01.2018. https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1076341.ein-sprachrohr-fuer-roma.html [link-preview url=”https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1076341.ein-sprachrohr-fuer-roma.html”]
An exhibition on Sinti and Roma in sport in Germany is focusing on the lives of three Sinti sportsmen Oswald Marschall (Boxing), Walter Laubinger and Sergio Peter (Football).
– Ausstellung im Verdener Rathaus berichtet über Sinti und Roma im Sport. In: Kreiszeitung. 16.01.2018. https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/verden/verden-ort47274/ausstellung-verdener-rathaus-berichtet-ueber-sinti-roma-sport-9531205.html [link-preview url=”https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/verden/verden-ort47274/ausstellung-verdener-rathaus-berichtet-ueber-sinti-roma-sport-9531205.html”]
The German who was indicted for racial hatred following racist posts on Facebook against Roma and Sinti whose process was adjourned last week is fearing for his security …
Really – and what about the Roma?
– Angeklagter hat Angst um seine Sicherheit. In: Märkische Allgemeine. 10.01.2018. http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Potsdam/Angeklagter-hat-Angst-um-seine-Sicherheit [link-preview url=”http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Potsdam/Angeklagter-hat-Angst-um-seine-Sicherheit”]
The president of the German Federal Criminal Police visited the documentation centre of the Central Council of the German Sinti and Roma and met with its president, Romani Rose.
Purpose of the visit: Dialogue and discussion on the situation of Sinti and Roma in Germany.
– Präsident des Bundeskriminalamtes Holger Münch zu Besuch im Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma. In: Zentralrat Sinti and Roma. 12.01.2018. http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/praesident-des-bundeskriminalamtes-holger-muench-zu-besuch-im-dokumentations-und-kulturzentrum-deutscher-sinti-und-roma/ [link-preview url=”http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/praesident-des-bundeskriminalamtes-holger-muench-zu-besuch-im-dokumentations-und-kulturzentrum-deutscher-sinti-und-roma/”]
The process of a German accused of having posted racist insults on a Facebook page has been adjourned … The person’s lawyer says he didn’t post it himself …
No comments.
– Hetze gegen Roma: Prozess gegen 37-Jährigen ausgesetzt. In: Focus. 10.01.2018. https://www.focus.de/regional/potsdam/prozesse-hetze-gegen-roma-prozess-gegen-37-jaehrigen-ausgesetzt_id_8278862.html [link-preview url=”https://www.focus.de/regional/potsdam/prozesse-hetze-gegen-roma-prozess-gegen-37-jaehrigen-ausgesetzt_id_8278862.html”]
Seems that Roma have simply vanished in France, and that the problem of the ca. 20’000 Roma that make the headlines have vanished overnight.
Probably too many other news this week!
Nevertheless, in Marseille, two classes of young Roma children had a week in the mountain as part of the school curriculum. And an interesting article about the shantytowns in France, their history, current situation and the impact on society.
– “Les petits oubliés de Marseille“ et ”Grandir, ensemble”. In: FR3. 11.01.2018. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/emissions/enquetes-region/petits-oublies-marseille-grandir-ensemble-1399009.html
– Les bidonvilles, “réservoirs urbains de problèmes… et de solutions”. In: Télérama. 08.01.2018. http://www.telerama.fr/idees/les-bidonvilles,-reservoirs-urbains-de-problemes…-et-de-solutions,n5429725.php [link-preview url=”https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/emissions/enquetes-region/petits-oublies-marseille-grandir-ensemble-1399009.html “]
No surprise, the salesman who was insulted as “fat ginger pikey” and other slurs lost his race bias case.
There is racism and racism it seems …
– Salesman called ‘pikey salad-dodger’ loses race bias claim. In: The Times. 10.01.2018. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/salesman-called-pikey-salad-dodger-loses-race-bias-claim-bj8btshjc [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/salesman-called-pikey-salad-dodger-loses-race-bias-claim-bj8btshjc”]
It is fairly bad if the president of a country feels obliged to reassure Holocaust survivors that they don’t risk anything… This is what happened in Austria, on the background of an Austrian interior minister who suggested to “concentrate” refugees in camps.
– Austrian President Seeks to Reassure Holocaust Survivors on Government. In: USNews (Reuters). 11.01.2018. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-01-11/austrian-president-seeks-to-reassure-holocaust-survivors-on-government
– FPÖ-Innenminister Kickl will Flüchtlinge “konzentriert” an einem Ort halten. In: Die Welt. 11.01.2018. https://www.welt.de/newsticker/news1/article172400202/Parteien-FPOE-Innenminister-Kickl-will-Fluechtlinge-konzentriert-an-einem-Ort-halten.html [link-preview url=”https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-01-11/austrian-president-seeks-to-reassure-holocaust-survivors-on-government “]
The attack against the house where foreigners and Roma lived was clearly racially motivated.
IT was really bad.
– “Lasst die brennen” – Gaffer beschimpfen Retter vor brennendem Haus, in dem Roma leben. In: Vice. 10.01.2018. https://www.vice.com/de/article/9knzy8/lasst-die-brennen-gaffer-beschimpfen-retter-vor-brennendem-haus-in-dem-roma-leben [link-preview url=”https://www.vice.com/de/article/9knzy8/lasst-die-brennen-gaffer-beschimpfen-retter-vor-brennendem-haus-in-dem-roma-leben”]
Unfortunately, yet another arrest on suspicion of slavery in a traveller camp in the UK. This is bad for all of us.
– Modern day slavery arrest in Brigg traveller site police raid. In: BBC. 09.01.2018. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-42628617 [link-preview url=”http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-42628617″]
The Times commemorates Damian Le Bas who died last year December 9th.
– Damian Le Bas. In: The Times. 11.01.2018. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/damian-le-bas-obituary-562ckk8jf [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/damian-le-bas-obituary-562ckk8jf”]
The incident with the German, Slovaks, and Roma actually occurred in a house that was partially burnt down on December 29th. There were 19 wounded in the attack that was pretty much directed against Roma.
BAD.
– PLAUEN: BRANDANSCHLAG MIT RASSISTISCHER UND ANTIZIGANISTISCHER KOMMENTIERUNG. In: Bell Tower. 10.01.2018. http://www.belltower.news/artikel/plauen-brandanschlag-mit-rassistischer-und-antiziganistischer-kommentierung-13149 [link-preview url=”http://www.belltower.news/artikel/plauen-brandanschlag-mit-rassistischer-und-antiziganistischer-kommentierung-13149″]
A new book was published recently in Mannheim, Germany, on the history of Roma and Sinti in that city and their constant discrimination and persecution.
– Stadt dokumentiert Geschichte der Sinti und Roma. In: Mannheimer Morgen. 10.01.2018. https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-thema-des-tages-stadt-dokumentiert-geschichte-der-sinti-und-roma-_arid,1178750.html [link-preview url=”https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-thema-des-tages-stadt-dokumentiert-geschichte-der-sinti-und-roma-_arid,1178750.html”]
A classical New Year Concert took place in Germany under the title “Spiel Zigeuner!” [Play, Gypsy]. Not the best choice to say the least.
– „Spiel, Zigeuner!“: Neujahrskonzert mit kontroversem Titel. In: Dewezet. 08.01.2018. https://www.dewezet.de/kultur/kultur-lokal_artikel,-spiel-zigeuner-neujahrskonzert-mit-kontroversem-titel-_arid,2430532.html [link-preview url=”https://www.dewezet.de/kultur/kultur-lokal_artikel,-spiel-zigeuner-neujahrskonzert-mit-kontroversem-titel-_arid,2430532.html”]
The case made the headlines. A boy disappeared in Berlin, was abused and eventually killed. Horrible story.
The process here goes against a person who was a member of a facebook page “looking for Elias” and who took the opportunity to write (sic.) “Dirty Roma, these miscarriages of incest, also steal children”. He is in court for incitation to racial hatred.
– Prozess der Woche Der Hetzer, der im Fall Elias Sinti und Roma böswillig beschimpfte. In: Berliner Zeitung. 08.01.2018. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/29438228 [link-preview url=”https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/29438228″]
An article on the so-called “Aussenlager” – the small camps affiliated with a major Concentration Camp but who have been largely forgotten or kept under silence since the end of the War.
This is bad, as this is one of the common places where crimes were committed.
– Vom Erinnern und Vergessen: das KZ-Außenlager in Heppenheim. In: Echo. 06.01.2018. http://www.echo-online.de/lokales/bergstrasse/heppenheim/vom-erinnern-und-vergessen-das-kz-aussenlager-in-heppenheim_18432630.htm [link-preview url=”http://www.echo-online.de/lokales/bergstrasse/heppenheim/vom-erinnern-und-vergessen-das-kz-aussenlager-in-heppenheim_18432630.htm”]
It seems that the Roma have vanished from the French news … At least almost entirely. Only very few articles this week on the subject.
In Macon, in Burgundy, expulsed Roma have been re-settled in a gymnastic hall, and in the North, two young Romnja arrested for Burglary.
– Mâcon : l’hébergement de migrants dans un gymnase, une solution proviso ire. In: FR3. 05.01.2018. https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bourgogne-franche-comte/saone-et-loire/macon/macon-hebergement-migrants-gymnase-solution-provisoire-1395645.html
– Deux cambrioleuses prises en flagrant délit par la police municipal. In: La Voix du Nord. 06.01.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/291555/article/2018-01-06/deux-cambrioleuses-prises-en-flagrant-delit-par-la-police-municipale [link-preview url=”https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bourgogne-franche-comte/saone-et-loire/macon/macon-hebergement-migrants-gymnase-solution-provisoire-1395645.html “]
Viktor Orban, the Hungarian Prime Minister, visited the German CSU at the Monastery of Seeon in Bavaria. While they report the critique about that visit, the paper also mentions that Orban did a housing project for Roma in Mohacs, a small town in the South of Hungary. That was a fig leaf project and let’s be clear, Orban policies are not pro-Roma.
– Orbán genießt auch in Mohács Rückhalt. In: Manheimer Morgen. 06.01.2018. https://www.morgenweb.de/bergstraesser-anzeiger_artikel,-bergstrasse-orbán-geniesst-auch-in-mohács-rueckhalt-_arid,1176837.html [link-preview url=”https://www.morgenweb.de/bergstraesser-anzeiger_artikel,-bergstrasse-orbán-geniesst-auch-in-mohács-rueckhalt-_arid,1176837.html”]
Just a small fact and a summary: in 2014/2015 France expulsed 11’000 Roma without (as required by the law) providing an alternative housing.
Bad.
– Sous le mandat de François Hollande, quel bilan pour les droits humains ? In: Blasting News. 04.01.2018. http://fr.blastingnews.com/opinions/2018/01/sous-le-mandat-de-francois-hollande-quel-bilan-pour-les-droits-humains-002266973.html [link-preview url=”http://fr.blastingnews.com/opinions/2018/01/sous-le-mandat-de-francois-hollande-quel-bilan-pour-les-droits-humains-002266973.html”]
In an Interview, Erich Schneeberger, the chairman of the Bavarian Association of Sinti and Roma says that many simply don’t say that they are Sinti or Roma in Germany.
Not a surprise, unfortunately.
– “Viele verschweigen, dass sie Sinti oder Roma sind”. In: Bayrische Staatszeitung. 05.01.2018. http://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/politik/detailansicht-politik/artikel/viele-verschweigen-dass-sie-sinti-oder-roma-sind.html [link-preview url=”http://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/politik/detailansicht-politik/artikel/viele-verschweigen-dass-sie-sinti-oder-roma-sind.html”]
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