A court in the Czech Republic condemned a real estate agent to apologise to a Rromni after having denied her a rental based on her ethnicity.
GOOD, but still a drop of water on a very hot stone. Racism against Rroma is all too common in the Czech Republic.
A lawyer from Luxembourg, Gaston Vogel recently wrote a letter to the municipality protesting against beggars whom he qualified as “disgusting” and “insolent”, regretting that “nobody deals with this scum” (see second article listed below).
A Luxembourg citizen staged a protest action against these comments by symbolically begging in the city as an act of solidarity. Well done!
A French mayor is digging trenches around green spaces in an attempt to prevent Rroma from settling there.
This is NUTS. Maybe he should consider building a wall around his village and loose the key?
Another festival in Slovakia, in Banska Bystrica and Zvolen: The festival people from the house of Roma. This year, the festival focuses on the young generation with several workshops for youngsters from different countries.
Canadian immigration officials are screening passengers departing to Canada at the Budapest airport, and deny entry to anyone presumed to be Rrom.
This is definitively not acceptable!
Some other French news …
An UK view of the events in la Courneuve, near Paris, a Rroma camp that is scheduled to be destroyed.
A background article in German on the fact that refugees and migrants are being used by rightists mayors such as in Padova for populist purposes. Their vocabulary is really dangerous.
This has to stop!
Romanians are generally not prone at wanted to be identified as Rroma… Or so it seems, except when it allows them to have an easier way into high school, as a case in Romania shows.
Some populists miss no occasion to be populist, prejudiced, racist, and spread idiotic information. This is the case here with Breitbart, a conservative US based news Network. Based on a fight between two Romanian Rroma families in Essen Germany, and the fact that a German newspaper also cited “Arabs” and criminals in the report, Breitbart makes a headline of criminal Gypsy and Arab gangs.
One should say STOP RACISM and START THINKING! This is not journalism, this is actual idiocy. It has to stop.
A street fight in Essen between two Rroma groups – probably from Romania, degenerated into a real street battle involving up to over 1’000 people according to police source. Thses fights continued later on.
This has given opportunity to several papers to equate all Rroma with criminal and to “throw in” an ounce of “criminal Arabs” into the fray to give a view that all migrants are surely criminals and that one needs to get rid to them.
Let’s call this by it’s name: This is POPULISM and RACISM.
Over 35’000 people signed an online petition to prevent the destruction of the slum in la Courneuve near Paris.
WELL DONE!
More background to the girl whose IQ beats that of Einstein and Hawkins. Chilling to read that discrimination is ripe in England against Rroma and Travellers.
Around 40 Rroma from Romania and Bulgaria are currently camping the castle’s park. This is common in France, with the illegal camps, but is definitively new in Germany. To be watched.
At last some thoughts on the topic. Such as: Extending the list of safe countries will not solve the problem…
In Crimea and in the Dombass (where the new autonomous region is being carved out), human rights for minorities, for Tatars and Rroma, but also for LGBT and religious minorities are under threat. There is an increased discrimination against them, something we can testify for the Rroma in that region.
Chilling report on Italy and on some of the proposed measures of mayors to prevent refugees, and of course Rroma, from settling in their towns. Bulldozing camps, burning down empty houses, or even building a wall around the town.
Back to the middle ages!
Some more news from the French migration scene… The Church in St. Ouen; expulsion in Grenoble; reprieve in Roubaix; and an article of what happened after an eviction.
Rroma refugees from Kosovo who fled to Serbia are anxiously awaiting a decision of the European Court for Human Right as to whether they can be evicted from their current informal settlements.
That they still live in ghettoes 16 years later in INADMISSIBLE.
The largest Rroma Festival in Bratislava. Quite a few groups from all over Europe.
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