The authorities in Neuchatel / Val de Ruz want the foreign travellers out. And want to take measures to prevent foreign travellers to come to the canton. This continues the current trend of forbidding foreign Rroma from coming over to Switzerland.
BAD.
As we write, the Lakatos family will probably have returned to Hungary. Their permit expired yesterday, and bar a miracle, they will have had to leave.
A report on begging in Stuttgart and on the actions of the police against it. Again, Rroma are seen as the main source of beggars (from Bulgaria, Slovakia, and from Romania). Clearly an amalgamation of Rroma to beggars …
In Neuchatel in Switzerland, the association of painters and plasterers is protesting against Rroma who are doing their jobs at a much lower price. According to the association, they do their jobs badly … To be seen. These Rroma are also professionals J
If there are no news about Rroma in the French Press, there are many about travellers. So many in fact, that one could think that France is literally invaded by travellers. 37 articles, in their great majority about illegal camps … You can judge by yourself:
Illegal camping in Vizille, near Grenoble; illegal camping in Alsace; in St. Hilaire, in Plan de Grasse, in Revel, in Saintes Maxime, in the Ardèche, in Montpellier, in Millau, and in Cabestany, in the South of France; in Western France in the Landes, in Dinant, in Lanton, in les Billaux, in Escources, in Pont de Cé, and in Lespare; in the North of France in Alprecht, in Wattinies, in Dunkerque, in Librecourt, in Le Portel, in Valenciennes, in Meurchin, and in Mazingarbe; in Normandy in Vascoeuil; in the East of France in Epinal, in Jarville, in Neufchateeau, in Saint Vit, and in Dombasle; and finally two articles on potential sites for camping for travellers in the centre of France and near Paris.
The Rroma occupying the Regensburg Cathedral have moved to the parish house of St. Emmeran in Bavaria. According to the refugees, the church was very forthcoming g in helping them.
Meanwhile, there is another article bemoaning the involvement of Antifa (Anti-Fascist Movement) behind the occupation of the cathedral. Adds nothing to the facts, and is just there to discredit the cause that these Rroma are fighting for.
A follow up of what happened to Mitko, the young Rrom who made the headlines in April for being beaten up after having said he was the equal of a Bulgarian.
Chilling …
An article which summarises the interview from Viktor Orban in the Frankfurter Allgemeine. To quote him: “in Hungary we must integrate hundreds of thousands of our Roma compatriots into the labour market.” This is a good excuse for a lot of things. An in terms of work integration, they have come up with the mandatory Közmunka, a source of cheap labour…
A nice article on Häns’che Weiss, one of the most prominent musicians of the Gypsy Jazz scene who recently passed away.
A sad headline. In Romania, in a remote mountain village, nearly 40 young man and women were detained by a Rroma clan and de-facto held as slaves. The police indicted 38 people.
One can ask whether saying that the criminals are Rroma is relevant. We think not, as this only contributes to yet another negative stereotype. These are criminals, and should be judged as such. Ethnicity has lost nothing here.
Yet another family of Hungarian Rroma refugees in Canada is facing potential deportation back to Hungary.
Bad …
The new mayor of Milan, in recognition that his election was also partly due to the vote of the local Rroma, is starting a new ini9tiative to resolve the issues this minority faces in the city. It aims at finding solution for the camps around the city as well as to promote the integration of Rroma in the city.
Good!
An interesting article explaining Eleie Wiesel’s views on Poland (a “Jewish Graveyard”) and on why Auschwitz was so much uniquely Jewish for him.
Even if one disagrees with him on this latter point, as the Holocaust is also a Rroma tragedy, he was and remains one of the voices of our conscience. May he rest in peace.
A Rroma view on “My big fat Gypsy Wedding” …
The pope representative for the Rome diocese stated that the situation in Rroma camps, especially the one of Castel Romano on Rome’s outskirts is not worthy of Rome, and added he had not even seen such squalor during and after the war.
Maybe people will start doing something?
Bulgarian authorities started demolishing “illegal” housing in the Rroma neighbourhood of Stolipinovo in Plovdiv.
BAD … What do they want to achieve? Razing the entire neighbourhood?
Interesting interview of Alexander Mušinka, who co-authored the strategy for integration of Rroma in the Slovak Republic. He speaks about how many Rroma, whether they all live in Ghettoes (they don’t), whether they really have more children (not always, and more driven by socio-economic factors, i.e. being poor), etc.
Worthwhile read!
EU auditors slammed the EU Rroma integration program saying that there is no way of knowing how much money and for what has been spent on Rroma integration programs by the EU…
BAD …
A long article in die Welt on the Rroma occupying the Regensburger Cathedral to prosets against their eventual expulsion back to the Balkan, as Germany has declared most countries there as being “safe”. This article asks whether the Rroma have aligned themselves with the Antifa (Anti Fascist Movement) whom die Welt portrays as radical in asylum questions.
Yet another article on the operations against human trafficking that has been launched by the Netherland police. Here Rroma figure prominently as victims but the fear is that in people’s minds, other Rroma are the traffickers.
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