Category Archives: Bulgaria

The page EU Scoop Doesn’t miss any opportunity to present Roma in their worst light and clearly to generalise. Purpose is clear: All Roma are criminals, cannot be integrated and … Well the rest is to be expected.
This time, this is a street light in a house…

– Gypsies Integrated a Functional Concrete Streetlamp into their House in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In: EU Scoop. https://www.euscoop.com/en/2018/2/6/roma-house-lamppost-integrated [link-preview url=”https://www.euscoop.com/en/2018/2/6/roma-house-lamppost-integrated”]

Another article on the new interdiction of horse drawn carriages in the centre of Sofia. This deprives many Roma of their only source of income.
Bad.

– Les charrettes ne sont plus le dada de Sofia qui accueille l’UE. In: Swiss Info. 22.12.2017. https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/les-charrettes-ne-sont-plus-le-dada-de-sofia-qui-accueille-l-ue/43776542 [link-preview url=”https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/les-charrettes-ne-sont-plus-le-dada-de-sofia-qui-accueille-l-ue/43776542″]

A children kanoo team was apparently assaulted by 11 Roma armed with picks and shovels who are now on trial.
Well the story is bizarre and the webpage is even worse so. It is openly anti Roma and relays tons of stories against them and about their “criminal” tendencies.
TO AVOID …

– Children’s Kanoo Team Attacked by 11 Gypsies With Pickaxes and Shovels. In: EU Scoop. https://www.euscoop.com/en/2017/12/18/roma-attack-childrens-kanoo-team [link-preview url=”https://www.euscoop.com/en/2017/12/18/roma-attack-childrens-kanoo-team”]

Seems that Bulgarian maternity wards are segregating Roma women into “Gypsy” wards. Bad.

– ‘Roma Segregated’ in Bulgarian Maternity Wards. In: Balkan Insight. 18.12.2017. https://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/roma-segregated-in-bulgarian-maternity-wards-12-17-2017 [link-preview url=”https://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/roma-segregated-in-bulgarian-maternity-wards-12-17-2017″]

Ahmed Musa, a Roma Imam from Pazardzhik was accused of spreading radical Islam. He has been released on bail pending judgement. This is not the first time, he was convicted of the same offense a while back and sentenced to prison, a sentence that was overturned later.
On TC, when asked whether he had contacts with Islamic State he said “there hasn’t been an Islamic State for 1400 years”.

– Освободиха Ахмед Муса от ареста. In: NVO GO. 06.12.2017. https://btvnovinite.bg/article/bulgaria/osvobodiha-ahmed-musa-ot-aresta.html
– Gypsy Imam Accused of Spreading Radical Islam in Bulgaria Walks After 7500 Leva Bail. In: EUScoop. 06.12.2017. https://www.euscoop.com/en/2017/12/6/imam-free-after-bail [link-preview url=”https://btvnovinite.bg/article/bulgaria/osvobodiha-ahmed-musa-ot-aresta.html “]

An article on the Hepatitis A epidemic affecting mostly Roma children in the Plovdiv region in Bulgaria.

– Plovdiv: 71 of total 89 people infected with hepatitis A in the Roma neighborhood Rakovski of Plovdiv are children aged 1 to 14 years. In: Focus. 25.11.2017. http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/11/25/425358/71-of-total-89-people-infected-with-hepatitis-a-in-the-roma-neighborhood-of-rakovski-in-plovdiv-are-children-aged-1-to-14-years.html [link-preview url=”http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/11/25/425358/71-of-total-89-people-infected-with-hepatitis-a-in-the-roma-neighborhood-of-rakovski-in-plovdiv-are-children-aged-1-to-14-years.html”]

Horse carriages have been banned “for security reasons” from the centre of town. This means that many Roma who use them to earn their livings will no longer be able to come in the centre and will loose their livelihood.
According to TV Nova, this is more about the image that Sofia wants to project when Bulgaria will be the president of the EU in the first semester of 2018.

– BULGARIE : LES CHARRETTES DES ROMS VONT DISPARAÎTRE DU CENTRE DE SOFIA. In: Le Corrier des Balkans. 19.11.2017. https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Bulgarie-Les-charrettes-vont-disparaitre-du-centre-de-Sofia [link-preview url=”https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Bulgarie-Les-charrettes-vont-disparaitre-du-centre-de-Sofia”]

The Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria was recently condemned for hate speech against Roma. Seems this has no consequences in Bulgaria. He has not stepped down nor has he been asked to do so.
Bad.

– Bulgarians unfazed by anti-Roma hate speech from deputy prime minister. In: Deutsche Welle. 31.10.2017. http://www.dw.com/en/bulgarians-unfazed-by-anti-roma-hate-speech-from-deputy-prime-minister/a-41183829 [link-preview url=”http://www.dw.com/en/bulgarians-unfazed-by-anti-roma-hate-speech-from-deputy-prime-minister/a-41183829″]

A further article on the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister condemned for hate speech against Roma.

– Bulgarian deputy prime minister Valeri Simeonov convicted of hate speech. In: The Times. 26.10.2017. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-valeri-simeonov-convicted-of-hate-speech-q8pk9xgqk [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-valeri-simeonov-convicted-of-hate-speech-q8pk9xgqk”]

The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Simeonov was found guilty of anti-Roma hate speech. In a speech in Parliament, he compared Roma to “stray dogs” and accused them to live “outside the rules of human behaviour”.
Good!

– Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Simeonov found guilty of anti-Roma hate speech – NGO. In: The Sofia Globe. 25.10.2017. https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/25/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-simeonov-found-guilty-of-anti-roma-hate-speech-ngo/
– Bulgarian deputy PM reprimanded over anti-Roma speech. In:: Channel News Asia. 25.10.2017.
Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/bulgarian-deputy-pm-reprimanded-over-anti-roma-speech-9344038 [link-preview url=”https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/25/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-simeonov-found-guilty-of-anti-roma-hate-speech-ngo/ “]

There was a clash between Roma and forest guards near Plovidiv that escalated while the guards were trying to prevent Roma from stealing wood. The guards were beaten up.
Bad, but also bad that sheer poverty forces people to go and steal wood to heat their homes.

– Stamen Geshev, Banya Mayor: Roma from town attacked and beat forest guards from Hisarya. In: Focus News. 17.10.2017. http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/10/17/424094/stamen-geshev-banya-mayor-roma-from-town-attacked-and-beat-forest-guards-from-hisarya.html [link-preview url=”http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/10/17/424094/stamen-geshev-banya-mayor-roma-from-town-attacked-and-beat-forest-guards-from-hisarya.html”]

An article about the Moslem Roma “threat” in Bulgaria where several articles in the local press state that the biggest threat to the country is the islamisation of the local Roma.
Bad.

– BULGARIE : LES ROMS MUSULMANS, UNE MENACE POUR L’« INTÉGRITÉ TERRITORIALE » ? In: Le Courrier des Balkans. 20.09.2017. https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Les-Roms-de-Bulgarie-vus-comme-menace-un-sujet-d-espionnage-ou-un-sujet [link-preview url=”https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Les-Roms-de-Bulgarie-vus-comme-menace-un-sujet-d-espionnage-ou-un-sujet”]

The Bulgarian Interior Minister Valentin Radev promised the return of Law and Order in Asenovgrad by adding policemen policing the Roma neighbourhood there. The city had been the scene of riots against Roma – allegedly because of petty criminality …
The right answer would be a different one.

– Minister Valentin Radev: There will be law and order in Roma neighbourhood in Asenovgrad. In: Focus Network. 24.08.2017. http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/08/24/422311/minister-valentin-radev-there-will-be-law-and-order-in-roma-neighbourhood-in-asenovgrad.html [link-preview url=”http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/08/24/422311/minister-valentin-radev-there-will-be-law-and-order-in-roma-neighbourhood-in-asenovgrad.html”]