The centre left candidate to the election of the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Giachetti, said he will aim to integrate the Rroma, should he be elected. This is good. Let’s close the camps and act against the mafia that was running them!
More news this week on Rroma, particularly in the North. First, a story about street view and the Rroma in Lille; then, tensions between Rroma squatting houses and their neighbours in Maubeuges and Roubaix; a camp that will be dismantled, sometimes; near Paris, the story of a school in a caravan for young Rroma children; shots fired at a Rroma camp in the south of France in Montpellier; and finally, a story of thefts perpetrated by young Rroma children.
More on the police action against Rroma who were protesting for the right to stay in Germany.
SHAME
A Rroma association in the UK is giving courses about Rroma and by Rroma with the aim of better understanding this minority.
Berlin Police raided a Rroma protest in Berlin last Sunday. The Rroma were protesting their eventual deportation back to “safe countries” in the Balkan.
SHAME!
Timea Junghaus, a Rromni artist on Art as a mean of resistance in Viktor Orban’s Hungary.
Another series of pictures on the pilgrimage in Saintes Marie de la Mer in Souther France.
A series of pictures of the pilgrimage in Saintes Marie de la Mer in Souther France.
A novel on a young Rromni by a French novelist Valérie Rodrigue is currently being presented to the press. It is a true story of a Rromni migrant and her integration in France.
Cameron’s government policies classifying Rroma as travellers and thus stating they are no longer a minority if they cease to travel are totally misplaced and racist. As this article puts it “The government announces that black people must prove they are black by living in majority-black areas. If they move into a white neighbourhood, they will no longer be legally classed as black, and receive no support or protection”.
Totally inacceptable!
A positive presentation of a young Rroma migrant who works, but also lots of other clichés on Rroma in general.
A book by the French ethnologist Catherine Monnot about her conversations and interviews of Gabriela Cantia, a Romanian Rromni who emigrated to France and leaves close to Toulouse in a camp was just published.
Travellers and Rroma manifested in front of the UK parliament to protest against the new planning policy that threatens their way of life and identity. Key point here is that the Gypsy and Traveller Status is no longer applicable for those who have ceased to travel. In brief and as in Switzerland, the way of life defines the minority.
Bad.
Mateo Salvini, the leader of the rightist Northern League visited a Rroma camp near Rome. He was promptly insulted by the Rroma there on the basis of his general statements on Rroma.
He then posted the reactions on Facebook. In brief, he was provoking. BAD.
Surprisingly positive chronicle this week in the French press. Yes there were a few expulsions – mostly travelers, the odd criminal case, but the bulk of articles this week was more on integration and insertion.
First, two articles from Libération, one on the so-called insertion village near Lyon where Rroma are housed and helped to integrate and in the second case, about a young Rrom who now goes to school; then a meeting against “Rromophobia” in Orléans, in Western France and a conference on Rroma in Brittany which will take place in June; an article on the Rroma resistance day; and finally a view on discrimination presented by its young victims.
Then, the more standard things: Expulsions of travelers (note that now one starts speaking about Rroma in this context) in Western France, near Paris, and in Grenoble; and the arrest of two Rroma thieves near Paris.
A nice summary of the career of the Gypsy Kings!
An article from the US on a translation of the book on Johann Trollmann, the Sinto boxer who ended up in a concentration camp.
A plea for Rroma not to be forgotten in higher education.
A very very worthy read of a young Rromni who studied at university.
A 95 years old Medic from Auschwitz is to stand trial.
At long last!
The Hessen Government in Germany wants to protect the graves of persecuted Rroma and Sinti. This follows a move of several other Laender in Germany who insisted that these graves need to be preserved.
Good, and may they rest in peace at last.
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