Around 100 Sinti and Roma from Hanover were deported to Auschwitz in March 1943. At a wreath-laying ceremony at the Ahlem memorial, the city and region recalled the injustice of the Nazi era – and called for the fight against prejudice.
Italian police arrested several travelling Roma and seized gold and arrested two people accused of having illegally transported tens of kg of gold over to Switzerland.
UK has been wondering what the sentence means after it was featured in a series. Funny to read some of the expert translations.
A series in German TV on Roma.
Almost no articles on Roma this week in France – a testimony of the more important news this last week.
A conference on Roma migration in Le Havre; in Montpellier, the construction of the “transition” village has started again following a decision by judges; and finally a new Roma camp in the South East.
A portrait of the actress Sandra Selimović.
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The German federal government wants to better record attacks on Sinti and Roma in the future with a civil society monitoring agency. With this, Berlin is pursuing a goal of a fight against racism.
Interview with two of the star actors of the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.
Experiences of discrimination are still part of everyday life for Sinti and Roma in Germany. The federal government now wants to counteract this grievance with an antitziganism strategy. The appointment of an antiziganism commissioner, as agreed in the coalition agreement, has not yet taken place.
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma welcomes the national strategy adopted by the Federal Government “Fight antigypsyism, ensure participation!”
An article on the aftermath of a recent police killing of a young Rom near Athens.
Worthy reading!
A portrait of an activist, Gianni Jovanovic.
Rather quiet week in the French press on Roma. First, the case of lead poisoning in a camp near Paris. The levels found in the children’s blood is worrisome. Then, two fires near Paris: One in a camp, one in a squat. Finally, also near Paris, a mayor asks the state for funding having seen the Roma population double recently in his commune. In Montpellier, in the South, an attempt to stop the construction of an “insertion village” has been rebutted by the court.
A reportage on the aftermath of the killings in Hanau, Germany
Several people protested outside a venue where Jimmy Carr was having a show.
Good.
Four young musicians from the Roma settlement of Nadezhda in Sliven will play in the Pierre Boulez Hall of the Paris Philharmonic on February 26. They are invited to take part in a classical concert of 120 young people from 27 countries as part of the DEMOS project of one of the largest philharmonics in the world, which provides a stage for children from social groups with difficult access to culture and education.
An exhibition presenting the roots and traditions of Roma culture through the works of Hungarian painter and poet János Balázs (1905-1977) has opened in Brussels.
Another article on the villas of the Roma Mafia Clan of Casamonica.
Knowing that all the members of the clan are in jail, and have been so for several years, and knowing that these villas and their pictures have been shown numerous times since, one cannot but wonder what the purpose of such articles is.
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