An interview of Alexander Diepold. Himself a Sinto, and the founder of the “Madhouse” a project that helps problematic youth to integrate.
Or the bleak reality of the everyday racism against Roma in that country.
The news is, that there is no noteworthy news on Roma in France this week.
Today marks the commemoration of the deportation of Sinti from Munich.
Gianni Jovanovic, Roma activist and homosexual recently published a book on his life.
Mehmet Daimagüler becomes the first German representative against antiziganism. He is a well know lawyer.
Few news on Roma, which is not surprising, as news are full of other more pressing issues.
Nevertheless, a few things: A meeting from the anti-racism league of France which still uses racist terms and is utterly confused by Roma, insisting there are Travellers, Manouches, Tsiganes, and Roma – the latter ones generally associated to Romania. Bad.
Other news are a fire in a camp ion Lille and angry neighbours of a camp in Villeneuve d’Asc in the North of France; in the southwest, a new camping site for Travellers; and finally, militants that are requesting solidarity with all refugees.
Around 100 Sinti and Roma from Hanover were deported to Auschwitz in March 1943. At a wreath-laying ceremony at the Ahlem memorial, the city and region recalled the injustice of the Nazi era – and called for the fight against prejudice.
Italian police arrested several travelling Roma and seized gold and arrested two people accused of having illegally transported tens of kg of gold over to Switzerland.
UK has been wondering what the sentence means after it was featured in a series. Funny to read some of the expert translations.
A series in German TV on Roma.
Almost no articles on Roma this week in France – a testimony of the more important news this last week.
A conference on Roma migration in Le Havre; in Montpellier, the construction of the “transition” village has started again following a decision by judges; and finally a new Roma camp in the South East.
A portrait of the actress Sandra Selimović.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=3262155854008092
The German federal government wants to better record attacks on Sinti and Roma in the future with a civil society monitoring agency. With this, Berlin is pursuing a goal of a fight against racism.
Interview with two of the star actors of the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.
Experiences of discrimination are still part of everyday life for Sinti and Roma in Germany. The federal government now wants to counteract this grievance with an antitziganism strategy. The appointment of an antiziganism commissioner, as agreed in the coalition agreement, has not yet taken place.
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma welcomes the national strategy adopted by the Federal Government “Fight antigypsyism, ensure participation!”
An article on the aftermath of a recent police killing of a young Rom near Athens.
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