What can you expect from a UK tabloid when speaking about Roma … Pandering to stereotypes.
In Portugal, the Chega! (That’s enough!), which currently has 12 seats in parliament, is now considered the third political force in the country, with 13.2% of the voting intentions in the latest polls. Although none of its members currently sit in the European Parliament, the party could gain three to four.
In a similar vein to neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, Chega’s ideology is described as anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-LGBTQIA+, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial, according to a report by the Global Project Against hate and extremism (Global Project against Hate and Extremism, GPAHE).
Not much this week about Roma in France, which is not surprising in view of the riots that followed the killing of a young man by the police in the Paris suburbs.
A festival in Poitiers focusing on Roma tales, the paramisja, and an article about a “huge” Roma camp (with about 500 inhabitants) which apparently disturbs business.
An article highlighting the fact that Roma refugees are being excluded by Ukrainian refugees.
Another article, this time in the Polish press about Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’ exhibition in Berlin. The host of the exhibition is the famous Brücke Museum, presenting only Expressionist painters associated in the early 20th century in the group “Die Brücke”. Małgorzata Mirgi-Tas’s exhibition “Sivdem Amenge. I sewed for us” is an artistic dialogue with selected artists of this group. But not only.
The article states that Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is currently the most famous contemporary Polish visual artist in the world.
The Berlin police wanted to deport a Roma family from Moldova early in the morning. The parents weren’t there, just two children. The officers took the 18-year-old daughter away and “handed over” the 11-year-old son to the neighbours. The boy then disappeared the management of the refugee home called the police and the youth welfare office, but even after the entire home was searched, he remained missing.
His siter was deported.
The Romani artist is having an exhibition in Berlin and gave an interview to TaZ.
In his play “Tschandala”, the Swedish Roma actor Lindy Larsson talks about decades of discrimination against Roma in Sweden – and about his own depressing and touching family history.
It’s hard to bear what the man, standing at the edge of the stage in a pale cone of light, is saying. His father was taken from the family as a child and placed in a government home. There he was beaten, raped, tied up for days, imprisoned. Again and again. He almost succeeded in attempting suicide when he was eleven. Later, as a teenager, he was almost sterilized. And he almost spent his whole life in prison and never met his future wife.
An exhibition on the on the Genocide of the Sinti and Roma, designed by the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial will be shown in the Flohburg in Nordhausen, Germany, opening on July 7th.
A Photographic Pilgrimage will be presented this summer at the chapel of the Museon Arlaten, the “Rencontres d’Arles” invited the film director Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Gadjo dilo, Exils, Liberté, Tom Medina, etc.) to tell us the story of the Gypsies, Manouches , Roma and Travelers from France and Europe.
More of the usual this week in France. A camp in Arles was dismantled, in Marseilles, residents are deprived of their parking because of an illegal Roma camp, and finally, two young Roma caught after having apparently stolen 212 mobile phones during a festival.
A city councillor made racist comments on Facebook and is frantically deleting comments from Roma and Travellers…
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Another reportage on the exhibition in Marseilles on Roma.
A social worker was hit by a steel ball in what the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma already denotes as being an anti-Roma attack.
An argument over a car parked in front of a courtyard escalated into a brawl involving up to 60 Roma and Romnja. They used sticks, bars, bottles and knives. The police had to intervene.
Roma and Travellers drove through London as part of a charity event.
Not much, to say the least this week. But the only notable article encompasses all stereotypes.
Bad.
More than forty people from the Roma community, among them refugees from Ukraine participate here in a “protected space” in a symposium on the management of traumas and their healing, for strengthening and empowering oneself.
Roxanna-Lorainne Witt, co-founder of the association Save Space and co-organizer of the symposium, explains in an interview for DW: “Who strengthens those people, who are strong for all of us? How are role models supported, so that strengthen themselves, while they themselves often have to work without stable perspectives and structures? Normal experiences – such as seeing the sea once in a lifetime – are often completely undervalued.”
A restaurant told staff not to take reservations from Roma… They eventually apologised.
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On the site of the Berlin camp of Marzahn, a monument commemorating the Sinti and Roma victims was inaugurated Sunday.
Erinnerungsort gedenkt verschleppter Sinti und Roma. In: RBB24. 11.06.2023. https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2023/06/gedenken-sinti-roma-ns-zeit-zwangslager-berlin-marzahn.html
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