Around 60 youngsters from the Albert Einstein School (AES) will now be able to guide their classmates through an exhibition entitled “The Path of the Sinti and Roma”. They have been trained accordingly. The students are involved in a project called “School without Racism – School with Courage”.
The controversy on the Documentation Centre and the memorial of the Hannover Railway station is being solved. The Documentation Centre will have its own building.
The controversy arose as the initial location of the centre was in a building shared with a company who is linked to Nazis.
A book written and concepted by Roma children aims at changing perceptions of Roma.
A large manifestation is expected in the UK today to protest against the new police laws. Among others, thee laws will criminalise trespass in a way that is aimed at Roma and Travellers.
More news this week on Roma, but again, mostly on Montpellier where a large Roma camp will be closed in March and replaced by a temporary camp. Future neighbours of this camp are vehemently protesting and the mayor of the commune where it will be located is saying that people will get killed.
Other news are more of the same. A camp re-opens in the South of France; a camp burns down near Paris; neighbours of a Roma camp near Paris convince the mayor to close a camp; and finally, one of the oldest insertion villages in France, in the northern town of Roubaix, closes.
A court in Milan reversed an order from the municipality to evict three Roma families in a camp.
A legal case on final injunctions against illegal occupation of land, i.e. camping.
An editorial on the new law currently being debated in the House of Lords which not only threatens protests but also criminalises Roma and Travellers way of life.
A new project “Thara” in Austria aims at helping Roma acquiring new skills and learnings so as to have more chances of finding jobs.
An article on the Roma community of Coventry.
What can be done against antigypsyism? The Jewish intellectual Micha Brumlik calls for the fight against it to be anchored in the state constitutions as a goal.
An interview with Denijen Pauljević, a young Roma author who just wrote a radio play: Munich – a cosmopolitan city with a heart? Not at all, says the young Romni Ramisa in the play. This is about anger, exclusion and the unsuccessful search for home.
Montpellier makes the headline this week. The city is dismantling Roma camps, and is setting aside a 10 ha site to relodge part of the Roma, resulting in protests from the neighbours of the selected land. They should better find a permanent solution rather than these idiotic measures.
Other news: A new camp in the Rhine valley in N Village-Neuf; a new squat in the former Orange building near Paris; and the usual criminal fact with two young Roma arrested near Nantes for theft.
Bouguenais : trois mineurs arrêtés après deux agressions en pleine rue. In: France Bleu. 04.01.2022. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/bouguenais-trois-mineurs-arretes-apres-deux-agressions-en-pleine-rue-1641302153
Yet another case of insulting players calling one “Gypsy”. When will football tackle this?
Seems that in spite of what has been said and pushed by conservatives, most Travellers camping sites last summer were legal …
There is a “Gypsy Musical Academy” in Italy, and no, it has nothing to do with Roma. It is a school for artists who want to go into musicals.
An article about the four new openly Roma Members of Parliament in Spain.
Very few news on Roma this week in France (always a good thing). First, a report on racism against Roma in France and worrying statistics. A theatre play in the South of France. A comic strip on an Ursari family who comes to France. More political, Roma in Ivry, near Paris, are protesting in front of the Prefecture. And finally, a clean-up operation on the site of a former Roma camp near Paris.
The Italian press is full of the story of an altercation of a Serbian footballer Sinisa Mihajlovic who clashed with the Italian police after being insulted as a “Gypsy” …
The Italian justice is now tackling the anti-Roma riots that took place recently in Rome.
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