Again, there are suspicions about the voting patterns of several Roma villages and neighbourhoods in the region of Kyustendil, Bulgaria. Recounts are being started.
Ethnologist Oľga Bodorová has been nominated for the Roma Spirit 2024 award for her lifetime contribution to ethnography and museology, especially for her documentation of the material and spiritual culture of Roma in Gemer-Malohont. Her publishing and presentation activities and efforts to preserve cultural heritage are of invaluable value for future generations.
Residents of the Roam neighbourhood of Fakulteta in Sofia have been protesting against Kiril Kirov – known as Kiro the Japanese. The protestes claim that for years Kirov and his family have been harassing the residents of the neighbourhood, extorting them and forcing them to leave their homes, even to emigrate abroad. According to the protesters, the Japanese’s associates were distributing drugs in the neighbourhood, beating and even raping women.
A flurry of events about Roma in France. In Galliac, near Paris in Ivry, the closing of the ‘Month for the Roma’ with several events. Then, the more usual, a fire in a Roma camp near Nantes, and the case of Roma pimps in Toulouse.
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