The usual story. No space for travellers, hence illegal camping, hence complaints.
Riccardo M. Sahiti is the founder and director of the Roma and Sinti Philharmonic. “Our orchestra stands for European heritage, for common European culture,” says the conductor in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
The Roma culture festival “Djelem Djelem” is taking place in Dortmund for the tenth time in a row. Until September 26, 2023, visitors can get to know the culture of the Sinti and Roma through films, theatre performances, music, training and encounters. Most of the events are free of charge.
The Polish artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is showing her elaborate collages in the Brücke Museum.
An article about the largest horse drive in the UK.
After a quiet week, back to the usual on the press coverage of Roma in France: Lots of garbage left after the closure of a camp near the Roissy airport in Paris; two camps closed near Paris; and finally, the largest Roma camp near Bordeaux will be closed shortly.
For several years, a group of Roma from Romania lived in a camp in the middle of Berlin. Now the district wants to put them in apartments and find them official work.
The article asks whether this will work. Alone the question contains a lot of stereotypes …
The Tory MP who was investigated in Wales for a leaflet that was deemed racist by Travellers has a long story of hostile and racist comments about Travellers. The Guardian found evidence as far back as 25 years ago.
It shoes that racism against these communities does not impair your chances of promotion.
Sad.
The police will not pursue actions against the Welsh Tory MP for his leaflet against Travellers.
Unfortunately not surprising.
The monument commemorating the Roma victims of the Holocaust on the site of the camp of Maxglan will be reopened this coming Wednesday. It was heavily damaged in February.
August 2nd is celebrated at the commemoration of the genocide of the Roma during the Holocaust since 2015. But Roma have long been second-class victims. The interest of the public in this commemoration and this part of the suppressed history is not least thanks to people like Čeija Stojka, who broke the silence. A major show is now being dedicated to Stojka at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.
A conservative MP from Wales created a sh*tstorm by asking his constituents whether they would (yes/no) like to see a traveller site next to their house. Police is investigating, conservative media think it is a perfectly ok question. Like “would you like to see [any other minority] a your neighbour…
The Genocide of Roma by the National Socialists is often called the forgotten Holocaust.
According to Jens-Christian Wagner, head of the Buchenwald memorial site, the commemoration of the mass deportation and murder of Sinti and Roma under National Socialism receives too little attention. “This is a topic that is in fact not nearly as present in public as the Shoah, i.e. the murder of European Jews,” Wagner told the German Press Agency.
In the context of the commemoration of the 2nd of August, Romani Rose called the European Union to outlaw anti-Roma racism alongside antisemitism.
A commemoration of the genocide of the Roma in Oberwart on August 2nd. Obewart, Austria, is known for the 1995 bomb attack by right wind extremists which killed 4 Roma.
A bridge in Patras, Greece, partially collapsed, killing one person and wounding another one. The victims are Roma who lived in a camp below the overpass.
Not much this week in France. The French prefect of the Herault, in the South of France, known for his hard stance against Roma camps is on the go. Near Paris, a new camp has been dismantled. And near Nantes two caravans took fire.
On August 2nd, a memorial plaque for the Sinti and Roma deported from Koblenz by the National Socialists will be unveiled at the Ravensbrück Memorial in Brandenburg. The occasion is the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the National Socialist Genocide of the Sinti and Roma.
Further commemorations planned on August 2nd in Darmstadt and in Ravensbrück.
Several articles in the Italian press about the arrests of a gang Sinti responsible for over 30 burglaries since December, and for theft of over 200’000 euros. They also had a collection of false license plates, radios, wigs, etc.
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