Germany is housing refugees in the former concentration camp of Buchenwald. Really.
France was put at the same level as Bulgaria by a UN report slamming those two countries for forced evictions of Rroma.
SHAME!!!
Bulgaria and Sweden are talking about migrants and poverty and Sweden is hoping to improve the living conditions of Rroma there.
Let’s see… Sweden’s agreement with Romania did not do much.
Residents of the Rroma Mahala (neighbourhood) of Garmen took to the street to protest the continuing destruction of so-called “illegal” houses there.
LET THESE DESTRUCTIONS STOPPED!
France has been slammed by the UN for the systematic eviction of Rroma camps. The UN stresses that a more inclusive and integrative policy might be a better alternative.
The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister went overboard and demonstrated that he must have been “under the bridge” as on say in the Balkans. 15% of beggars in Sweden are of Bulgarian origins. This is real statistic. If there are 200 beggars there, this is probably a lot.
NO NEWS!!!!
A first: A Rromni was elected in Moldova to a local council.
Well Done!
The demolition of Rroma houses in Garmen is continuing.
SHAME!
More and more Hungarian Rroma are now being granted asylum in Canada. Now almost 69% obtain it whereas a few years back, it was almost impossible.
The feast of Saint Mary is a traditional gathering for Rroma from all over Romania.
The ex general secretary of the CDU (conservative), Heiner Geissler, stated that Rroma from the Balkan should be granted asylum, as they are systematically discriminated against.
BRAVO!
The UN is insisting that Slovak politicians should not tolerate police violence against Rroma. In Slovakia, it happens on a regular basis, and this, with total impunity.
The movie on Romanian Rroma slavery, Aferim, on which we have already repeatedly reported is a potential oscar contender.
Nice!
17 Rroma are on trial in Paris for having pick-pocketed tourists in the capital. Some of them are accused to have transferred back as much as 700’000 EUR. A lot of money.
Again, is it relevant that they are Rroma? If guilty, they are criminals. Ethnicity has nothing to do with this. At most, the fact that they had very little other opportunities in their home countries.
Das Boot ist voll – the ship is full is an argument that has been used since a long time to avoid taking care of refugees, and, in the case of Germany, also to avoid having any Rroma around.
A chilling reading.
The French Front National got caught in a fake Twitter account story used to spread racists tweets, among them (see the bottom of the article) against Rroma.
SHAME!
Manes Bernardini from Bologna, again went overboard: He qualified the city of Bologna as a “Zingaropoli” – a “Gypsy Metrople”. He was slammed by the anti-discrimination council anf given a yellow card.
This is not the fist time that Bernardini uses populist anti-Rroma rhetoric. This has to STOP!
Geneva fines beggars. The fine is set at 220.— CHF, a steep sum when one thinks that begging brings in at most 20-30 CHF per day. This is being used to actually deport people as, when they are not in apposition to pay, they de-facto become criminals (they are sent to prison) that can be sent back to their country of origin with an interdiction to come back to Switzerland.
In an interview, a representative of the UNHCR slammed France for having chosen the worst possible solution in closing the camp in la Courneuve.
Well said!
Several newspapers reported that one of the suspects in the death of more than 70 migrants who died in a truck in Austria is a Rrom from Bulgaria.
We ask: Is it relevant? NO, ethnicity has nothing to do with this. This was started by the Swiss magazine le Temps and promptly re-taken by a few others.
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