Monthly Archives: August 2015

Czech Real Estate Agent must apologise

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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.

Luxembourg: A Lawyer against begging and the right answer!

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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!

Another Festival in Slovakia

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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.

Canada screening passengers in Budapest

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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!

French Chronicle

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Some other French news …

Italy rightists against migrants and refugees

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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!

How daft…

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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.

Street Fight in Essen

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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.

 

Camping Rroma in Stuttgart

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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.

Ukraine: Human rights for minorities under threat

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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.

Italian right against refugees

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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!

French Chronicle

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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.

Belgrade: Rroma refuges facing eviction

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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.

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