An overview of what was said about Bulgaria in European Media. At the bottom: News about Rroma – with all bad stereotypes. And this from a Russian newspaper.
Bad!
A documentary on Bulgarian Rroma was shown in Bordeaux in France. It highlighted the issue of illegal buildings, a topic that was often in the press lately.
The chairman of a foundation in Bulgaria, Vasil Vasilev, is appealing against discrimination based on religion or ethnicity.
GOOOOOOOD!
Rroma from the Fakulteta neighbourhood of Sofia have been protesting about the disappearance of a Rrom after he was stopped by the police.
Volen Siderov, the leader of the Ataka party who has been involved in anti-Rroma and nationalist events has now been arrested in Bulgaria. Took a while …
An article on documentary on a Bulgarian Rroma ghetto in France.
Protests against the election of a Rroma mayor in a village with a large Rroma minority are continuing in Bulgaria. Seems that if you are Rrom, you can’t be an elected official, at least in some people’s minds …
This time, residents of a Bulgarian village are protesting the election of a Rroma mayor.
SHAME …
An interesting description of what is truly going on in Bulgaria with the destruction of Rroma houses. The article is not recent but still very much worthwhile reading.
The National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria is presenting a candidate as Mayor of Sofia, the capital. This party advocates removing illegal Roma ghettos, something that is already happening in various cities in that country.
The Bulgarian church stated explicitely that Moslems were not welcome in Bulgaria. This allegedly to prevent an “invasion”. Well, Turks and Rroma from Bulgaria are also Moslems, and make around 13% of the population. Are they too unqwelcome? Let’s not forget that in the 80’s, Bulgaria expelled roughly 400’000 Turkish Moslems to Turkey (they went to settle in Cyprus – well done Bugaria). That is almost 5% of the Bulgarian population of that time.
Is this Christian?
Read this… Badly thought arguments, and the way against them on the refugee crisis. The paragraph on Rroma is particularly scary: The argument goes as follows: Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria have not managed to integrated their Rroma, so they cannot take on any refugees.
The right way to say it: Nationalistic policies have tried to ethnicise and segregate minorities, and these have failed. Has nothing to do with refugees, and all to do with tolerance.
The Bulgarian Development Minister said she will not resign following calls to do so on her handling of the crisis in Garmen where houses continue to be destroyed. She says she is following the law… This is not always a good argument.
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!
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!!!!
The demolition of Rroma houses in Garmen is continuing.
SHAME!
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.
Rroma whose houses were destroyed in Varna have been arrested by the police, and the mayor declared that people who had built houses illegally are not entitles to a social housing alternative. In brief, they have been driven to the street.
SHAME!
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