You’d think it was resolved long time ago.
No …
- Sinti survivor of the Nazis fights for compensation. In: Deutsche Welle.08.04.2022. https://www.dw.com/en/sinti-of-the-nazis-fights-for-compensation/a-61414729
You’d think it was resolved long time ago.
No …
The German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks Roma and Sinti for forgiveness, as it took way to long to recognise the Roma Holocaust and the discriminations continue.
Roma refugees from the Ukraine without valid documents are not welcome.
Bad.
An article about Poland at this year’s Venice Biennale.
Or how a town sends Roma refugees from the Ukraine further away…
Discriminations against Roma are an everyday occurrence in German schools.
Almost no news on Roma in France this week: A town in Northern France is working hard to enrol young Roma in schools; a Romni telling stories to children in Nantes; and the removal of garbage in the vicinity of a Roma squat in Marseilles.
The number of crimes committed against Sinti and Roma fell slightly last year for the first time since systematic recording began in 2017. The authorities reported 109 so-called Roma crimes for the past year – 18 percent fewer than in 2020 with 133 crimes, according to a response from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to a request from the Left Movement reported by the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (NOZ).
The city of Rome is reassessing and rearranging its department responsible for running the Roma camps in the capital. Well, not sure this will change anything, as the situation has not evolved in at least 30 years …
“A small town made up of Sinti and Roma” is developing on the Munich exhibition grounds. The member of parliament Andreas Lorenz (CSU) visited the exhibition halls on Sunday (March 3rd). His conclusion: “Today, 2,100 people are housed here. 1,200 of them are children. 90 percent are Sinti and Roma.” Apparently not all those who arrive come from the Ukraine. “Around 30 percent have no papers”, can be heard in the exhibition halls. Lorenz: “I found that many don’t even know the Ukrainian government districts.”
The fact that Germany discriminates against Sinti and Roma at every level in the education.
The city of Brussels is trying to stop children younger than 16 from begging. And of course, these are Roma.
Forbidding begging is not a solution.
The Stuttgart Sinto Peter Reinhardt tells as a contemporary witness in a film about his life as a descendant of the survivors of the Nazi terror and about never-ending discrimination.
The student association of Sinti and Roma in Germany supports Sinti and Roma at universities with advice and action. One of the founders of the association, Radoslav Ganev, talks about the antigypsy myths and stereotypes that students are still confronted with at universities today.
In brief, academia has the same bias against Roma.
Such articles do not help, but then, the facts are not good either.
A group of Roma refugees from the Ukraine rioted when they were told they would need to lodge in a gym. They were expecting a hotel…
The story of a refugee from North Macedonia in Germany, currently facing deportation.
Roma refugees from the Ukraine are complaining of discrimination in Germany.
This is Nastasia’s story. She had to fight for gain access to higher education, because she is a Romni, and Roma are still discriminated against in the German education system.
A movie on Roma history. Unfortunately very much from a western European perspective. It seems that one systematically forgets that there was a Byzantine Empire, and then an Ottoman one where things were different.
137 cases of anti-Roma racism and discrimination in Berlin in 2021.