The beggars who challenged the law forbidding begging in the canton of Vaud have lost their appeal. The Constitutional Court rejected the petition of nine plaintiffs, including four Roma, a homeless person, and a pastor. Their fundamental rights were not be violated.
The canton of Vaud will not attempt a pilot experiment for Roma integration, which was supposed to provide housing for a limited period of time to around fifteen families. On Tuesday, members of the Grand Council rejected the proposal to this effect.
Lots of news this week about Roma in the French press. First, a Roma collective addresses the French deputies regarding Antigypsyism. Then the more usual news in France: An expulsion in Marseilles and the consequences of upcoming closure of a large camp near Nantes in Western France.
An action in France for the recognition of the genocide of the Roma (and the participation of France in it.
Several articles in the French press about April 8th.
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