A memorial on the Hodonin camp commemorating the Rroma victims of the Holocaust will be erected in the summer. Nice… But wil they say that most Rroma were arrested and deported by the Czech themselves?
– Hodonín Memorial on wartime camp for Roma to open in summer. In: Prague Monitor. 05.01.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/01/05/hodon%C3%ADn-memorial-wartime-camp-roma-open-summer [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2017/01/05/hodon%C3%ADn-memorial-wartime-camp-roma-open-summer”]
Two large apartment blocks in Lunik IX, a settlement in Kosice in Eastern Slovakia are scheduled to be destroyed due to the dire conditions in which the building have fallen. Question remains – where will the mostly Rroma inhabitants go ?
– Hrozba pre obyvateľov Luníka IX: Chystá sa veľké búranie! In: Topky. 07.01.2017. http://www.topky.sk/cl/10/1599873/Hrozba-pre-obyvatelov-Lunika-IX–Chysta-sa-velke-buranie- [link-preview url=”http://www.topky.sk/cl/10/1599873/Hrozba-pre-obyvatelov-Lunika-IX–Chysta-sa-velke-buranie-“]
As part of its activities, the Association of the Roma Nation (ANR), has convened a public meeting on Rome and Rroma and on the respect of the agreements with the EU following the December 16th resolution no. 117 of the Capitoline council establishing a Roma and Sinti Consultative body (RSC). The NRA invite the mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi as well as several other councillors.
On December 30, 2016, Marcello Zuinisi, the legal representative of the ANR, has filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor at the Ordinary Court of Rome, directly into the hands of the Chief Prosecutor, Dr. Giuseppe Pignatone regarding the gestion and need for closure of the Rroma camps.
– Roma: l’Associazione Rom (ANR), ha convocato un incontro pubblico. In: Messina Magazine. 07.01.2017. http://www.messinamagazine.it/2017/01/05/roma-lassociazione-rom-anr-ha-convocato-un-incontro-pubblico/
– Incontro “Rom, Sinti, Caminanti e Tavolo di Inclusione a Roma Capitale” In: Radio radicale. 04.01.2017. https://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/496622/incontro-rom-sinti-caminanti-e-tavolo-di-inclusione-a-roma-capitale [link-preview url=”https://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/496622/incontro-rom-sinti-caminanti-e-tavolo-di-inclusione-a-roma-capitale”]
The case of a 13 years old Rroma girl who gave birth raised the Rroma issue again in Bulgaria. As usual, on the wrong reasons … Teenage pregnancies are highly correlated to poverty and lack of education, not to cultural traits.
– Zlatka’s story of early teen motherhood again raises issues of Roma in Bulgaria. In: Sofia Globe. 05.01.2017. http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/01/05/zlatkas-story-of-early-teen-motherhood-again-raises-issues-of-roma-in-bulgaria/ [link-preview url=”http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/01/05/zlatkas-story-of-early-teen-motherhood-again-raises-issues-of-roma-in-bulgaria/”]
The city of Odessa has been flooded with anti-Rroma posters. Bad, especially when one remembers there has been a pogrom nearby recently.
– Ukraine: Odessa is flooded with anti-Romani posters. In: Romea.cz. 02.01.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/ukraine-odessa-is-flooded-with-anti-romani-posters#.WGwTw9upFoA.facebook [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/ukraine-odessa-is-flooded-with-anti-romani-posters#.WGwTw9upFoA.facebook”]
A movie on Django Reinhardt opened the Berlin Festival. Will be worth seeing and judging, but it is certainly a difficult subject.
– Film über Django Reinhardt eröffnet Festival. In: Spiegel Online. 04.01.2017. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/berlinale-2017-eroeffnungsfilm-ueber-django-reinhardt-a-1128520.html
– “Django” wird die Berliner Filmfestspiele eröffnen. Der Tagesspiegel. 04.01.2017. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/berlinale-2017-django-wird-die-berliner-filmfestspiele-eroeffnen/19208970.html [link-preview url=”http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/berlinale-2017-eroeffnungsfilm-ueber-django-reinhardt-a-1128520.html “]
A new book, called “Our Father” tells the story of a German Sinti family. It is written by a Sintica Anita Awosusi. She will present it at the Jewish Museum in Berlin on February 9th.
– Vater unser Eine Sintifamilie erzählt. In: Jüdisches Museum Berlin. https://www.jmberlin.de/vater-unser-eine-sintifamilie-erzaehlt [link-preview url=”https://www.jmberlin.de/vater-unser-eine-sintifamilie-erzaehlt”]
A first in the French Press on how the Hungarian policies towards Rroma are going back to the past where it was legal to kill Rroma … Quite amazing from a mainstream French radio.
– La politique anti-tziganes en Hongrie. In: France Inter. 29.12.2016. https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/la-face-b-de-l-actualite-internationale/la-face-b-de-l-actualite-internationale-29-decembre-2016 [link-preview url=”https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/la-face-b-de-l-actualite-internationale/la-face-b-de-l-actualite-internationale-29-decembre-2016″]
An exhibition in Dallas retraces Hitler’s Master Race plans and the consequences on those who did not fit in, Jews and Rroma foremost.
– Exhibition at Misericordia University outlines Hitler’s desire to create ‘master race’ In: The Dallas Post. 03.01.2017. http://mydallaspost.com/news/23264/exhibition-at-misericordia-university-outlines-hitlers-desire-to-create-master-race [link-preview url=”http://mydallaspost.com/news/23264/exhibition-at-misericordia-university-outlines-hitlers-desire-to-create-master-race”]
Reading this, one could think there is a huge influx of criminal Rroma… How about all the people who get shot and other various things that happen quite regularly in most US cities. Why this sudden twist on Rroma?
– APD warns of scammers from Romania. In: Abilene Reporter News. 04.01.2017. http://www.reporternews.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/04/apd-warns-romanian-national-scammers/96154778/ [link-preview url=”http://www.reporternews.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/04/apd-warns-romanian-national-scammers/96154778/”]
The German Author Michail Krausnick, who has relentlessly engaged himself against discrimination has been awarded the Lagrenne prize of the City of Manheim for his work. The Prize is named after a well known Sinti Family of the region, the Lagrenne’s.
– Gegen Diskriminierung und Rassismus. In: Rhein Neckar Zeitung. 04.12.2016. http://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/metropolregion_artikel,-Gegen-Diskriminierung-und-Rassismus-_arid,245795.html [link-preview url=”http://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/metropolregion_artikel,-Gegen-Diskriminierung-und-Rassismus-_arid,245795.html”]
Seems that the French police has apprehended the author of the racist anti-Jewish and anti-Rroma tags on a pre-school in Montreuil (we reported).
Good!
– #MONTREUIL L’auteur présumé des tags antisémites et anti-roms sur l’école Anne-Frank sera jugé dans la journée. In: L’Obs. 28.12.2016. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/en-direct/a-chaud/31732-montreuil-auteur-presume-antisemites-ecole-frank-journ.html
– TAGS ANTISÉMITES ET ANTI-ROMS À MONTREUIL : LE QUADRAGÉNAIRE DEVANT LE TRIBUNAL DE BOBIGNY CE MERCREDI. In: LCI.28.12.2016. http://www.lci.fr/faits-divers/tags-antisemites-et-anti-roms-a-montreuil-le-quadragenaire-devant-la-17e-chambre-du-tribunal-correctionnel-de-bobigny-ce-mercredi-2019178.html [link-preview url=”http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/en-direct/a-chaud/31732-montreuil-auteur-presume-antisemites-ecole-frank-journ.html”]
An interesting article on the Ukrainian Rroma, and most notably on the Servi, a group of Rroma that is thought to have fled present day Romania very early and have a Vlach dialect. Recent research seem to say that they have Carpathian origins. Seems unlikely although there are Carpathian Rroma in the Ukraine, the Plaščuni.
– Цыган — это не профессия. In: Internatioal Society for Romani Culture Studies. 29.12.2016. http://www.kulturom.ru/news/2016/12/29/panchenko [link-preview url=”http://www.kulturom.ru/news/2016/12/29/panchenko”]
Slightly delayed from its usual dominical slot due to the new year. And a surprise … Normally, most of the news on Rroma are on camps and expulsions. Now this time, with the exception of articles on the international situation of Rroma), this seems to be almost exclusively criminality and begging.
Two articles on two burglaries and a story on robbery of joggers in Lille in the North; a burglary in the South; police interdiction of begging near Paris; in Lyon, an illegal occupation of a house; and finally more in the usual topic, a fire in a camp in Aix en Provence.
– Le «touriste» roumain avait cambriolé une maison. In: La Voix du Nord. 28.12.2016. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/95987/article/2016-12-28/le-touriste-roumain-avait-cambriole-une-maison
– Un cambriolage audacieux ou une sortie alcoolique ? . In: La Voix du Nord. 28.12.2016. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/96066/article/2016-12-28/un-cambriolage-audacieux-ou-une-sortie-alcoolique
– Des joggeurs et automobilistes dépouillés lors de guets-apens. In: La Voix du Nord. 29.12.2016. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/96458/article/2016-12-29/des-joggeurs-et-automobilistes-depouilles-lors-de-guets-apens
– Lattes : trois Roms arrêtés lors d’un cambriolage dit “de nécessité” In: Midi Libre. 23.12.2016. http://www.midilibre.fr/2016/12/28/lattes-trois-roms-arretes-lors-d-un-cambriolage-dit-de-necessite,1446226.php
– Seine-Saint-Denis : contre les mendiants, le maire d’Aulnay utilise le Code de la route. In: Le Parisien. 28.12.2016. http://www.leparisien.fr/aulnay-sous-bois-93600/aulnay-contre-les-mendiants-syriens-et-roms-beschizza-degaine-la-traversee-hors-des-clous-27-12-2016-6499269.php
– Aulnay-sous-bois. Un usage du Code de la route hors des clous. In: L’Humanité. 30.12.2016. http://www.humanite.fr/aulnay-sous-bois-un-usage-du-code-de-la-route-hors-des-clous-629433
– Rhône : il revient de vacances, des Roms s’étaient installés chez lui. In: MLyon. 30.12.2016. http://www.mlyon.fr/154974-rhone-il-revient-de-vacances-des-roms-s-etaient-installes-chez-lui.html
– Aix-en-Provence: incendie lié à un accident domestique près de l’autoroute A8 / A51. In: FR3 Provence Alpes. 29.12.2016. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes/bouches-du-rhone/aix-en-provence/aix-provence-incendie-lie-accident-domestique-pres-autoroute-a8-a51-1163167.html [link-preview url=”http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/95987/article/2016-12-28/le-touriste-roumain-avait-cambriole-une-maison”]
In spite of promises and words, it seems that the policies of the new mayor of Rome, Virgina Raggi, are not going to resolve integration issues for Rroma in the city anytime soon… The main proposal is now a round table on integration.
DOSTA!!!
– Virginia Raggi e il risanamento della città di Roma. Dal bilancio ai trasporti, passando per le politiche. In: Farodi Roma. 02.01.2017. http://www.farodiroma.it/2017/01/02/virginia-raggi-e-il-risanamento-della-citta-di-roma-dal-bilancio-ai-trasporti-passando-per-le-politiche-sociali/ [link-preview url=”http://www.farodiroma.it/2017/01/02/virginia-raggi-e-il-risanamento-della-citta-di-roma-dal-bilancio-ai-trasporti-passando-per-le-politiche-sociali/”]
A Hungarian Operetta on Rroma has debuted at the Hungarian National Theatre. The play has been on stage in 2014 in Hungary and abroad. The performance claims to show f Roma Culture and traditions and to seek authentic Gypsy music and dance show of the world.
The plot however, is clearly biased towards the life in the Cigany Telep, the Rroma ghettoes in villages and towns of Hungary. Quite full of stereotypes.
– KERÉNYI MIKLÓS MÁTÉ A SOMNAKAJBAN DEBÜTÁL. In Szinhaz. 26.12.2016. https://szinhaz.org/csak-szinhaz/csak-szinhaz-budapest/2016/12/29/kerenyi-miklos-mate-somnakajban-debutal/ [link-preview url=”https://szinhaz.org/csak-szinhaz/csak-szinhaz-budapest/2016/12/29/kerenyi-miklos-mate-somnakajban-debutal/”]
Andrej Kiska’s address to the Slovaks for New year also had words about Rroma:
“It will be an important year in which it will be seen whether sole general response of the State to problems of socially deprived Roma citizens will only be repression.” The president also said that “in some places we need improvements, and we need a plan that specifically children gradually bring forth of ignorance and poverty”. Small regional examples that work, according to the president and, they should be scaled up to larger dimensions.
– Tretí Kiskov novoročný prejav: Zdravotníctvo je priorita, odkaz Kaliňákovi platí. In: Dennik. 01.01.2017. https://dennikn.sk/646111/treti-kiskov-novorocny-prejav-zdravotnictvo-je-priorita-odkaz-kalinakovi-plati/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/646111/treti-kiskov-novorocny-prejav-zdravotnictvo-je-priorita-odkaz-kalinakovi-plati/”]
A long article on the Jenische in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nice.
– Die Vergessenen. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 30.12.2016. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/historie-die-vergessenen-1.3313739 [link-preview url=”http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/historie-die-vergessenen-1.3313739″]
Nazis graffiti were sprayed onto a pre-school carrying the name “Anne Frank” in Montreuil, north of Paris. The slogans called for the extermination of Jews and Rroma …
– Nazi-style Graffiti Defaces Paris-area Preschool Named for Anne Frank. In: Haaretz. 26.12.2016. http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-1.761463 [link-preview url=”http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-1.761463″]
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