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Another Interview with Anina Ciuciu

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Anina Ciuciu gave another interview last week to the French press. She is a candidate in the Senatorial elections in France and could become the first elected Romni in the French Senate.

– Anina Ciuciu, 27 ans, première candidate rom aux sénatoriales. In: France 24. 24.08.2017. http://www.france24.com/fr/20170823-anina-ciuciu-premiere-candidate-rom-senatoriales-senat-portrait-seine-saint-denis-eevl [link-preview url=”http://www.france24.com/fr/20170823-anina-ciuciu-premiere-candidate-rom-senatoriales-senat-portrait-seine-saint-denis-eevl”]

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French Chronicle …

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Very few news this week on Roma in France. An article about Roma from the Kosovo who had to appear in front of a judge in Angers, in Western France; in Montpellier, the mayor is asking the French state for support to control a Roma camp in the city; in Lille, one of the largest camps has been closed; and finally, Roma pickpockets in Disneyland near Paris.

– L’errance des Roms passe par le tribunal. In: Ouest France. 25.08.2017. http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/l-errance-des-roms-passe-par-le-tribunal-5207765
– Camps de Roms à Montpellier : Philippe Saurel perd patience. In: Midi Libre. 27.08.2017. http://www.midilibre.fr/2017/08/26/camps-de-roms-a-montpellier-philippe-saurel-perd-patience,1552029.php
– Lille: Démantèlement du camp de Roms de Pont-Royal. In: 20 Minutesd (FR). 22.08.2017. http://www.20minutes.fr/lille/2119675-20170822-lille-demantelement-camp-roms-pont-royal
– Le camp de Roms de Pont-Royal a été évacué ce mardi matin. In: La Voix du Nord. 22.08.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/207166/article/2017-08-22/le-camp-de-roms-de-pont-royal-ete-evacue-ce-mardi-matin
– Des pickpockets roumains qui détroussaient des touristes devant la justice. In: Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace. http://www.dna.fr/actualite/2017/08/27/des-pickpockets-roumains-qui-detroussaient-des-touristes-devant-la-justice [link-preview url=”http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/l-errance-des-roms-passe-par-le-tribunal-5207765″]

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Germany: The Story of the Family Weiss

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A story about a Sinti family in Post War Germany. This shows what Roma had to face in the aftermath of the War and Holocaust in Germany.

Die unerzählte Geschichte der Familie Weiß. In: Dewezet. 25.08.2017. https://www.dewezet.de/hintergrund/hintergrund-seite_artikel,-die-unerzaehlte-geschichte-der-familie-weiss-_arid,2397270.html [link-preview url=”https://www.dewezet.de/hintergrund/hintergrund-seite_artikel,-die-unerzaehlte-geschichte-der-familie-weiss-_arid,2397270.html”]

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Pilgrimage in Lourdes

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The annual pilgrimage of the French travellers (Manouches et Gitans) in Lourdes closed yesterday., It is held from the 19th to the 24th of August.

– Le pèlerinage des gens du voyage à Lourdes. In: Aleteia. 24.08.2017. https://fr.aleteia.org/2017/08/24/le-pelerinage-des-gens-du-voyage-a-lourdes/ [link-preview url=”https://fr.aleteia.org/2017/08/24/le-pelerinage-des-gens-du-voyage-a-lourdes/”]

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

Response to Slavery

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The UK press had a field day when the details of the slavery case were highlighted last week. A family of travellers held people in squalid conditions as de-facto slaves.
Here is the response to this act from the Traveller Community.

– ‘Traveller slavery’ and the press – a TT response. In: The Travellers’ Times. 21.08.2017. http://travellerstimes.org.uk/Blogs–Features/Traveller-slavery-and-the-press–a-TT-response.aspx [link-preview url=”http://travellerstimes.org.uk/Blogs–Features/Traveller-slavery-and-the-press–a-TT-response.aspx”]

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UK – Really?

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The trend against travellers in the UK seems to be growing.
Bad.

– Anti-traveller trench dug in Stapleford. In: BBC News. 18.08.2017. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40977124/anti-traveller-trench-dug-in-stapleford [link-preview url=”http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40977124/anti-traveller-trench-dug-in-stapleford”]

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Germany: Max Birkenfelder

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The Holocaust survivor, Max Birkenfelder, died at the age of 79. Hi family spent four years in the Radom Ghetto in Poland, where they were forced to work under extreme conditions.
May he rest in peace!

– Als Kind Erschießungen erlebt. In: Maheimer Morgen. 18.08.2017. https://www.morgenweb.de/schwetzinger-zeitung_artikel,-schwetzingen-als-kind-erschiessungen-erlebt-_arid,1098227.html [link-preview url=”https://www.morgenweb.de/schwetzinger-zeitung_artikel,-schwetzingen-als-kind-erschiessungen-erlebt-_arid,1098227.html”]

France Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Anina Ciuciu

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An interview of the young law student and Romni, Anina Ciuciu who is a candidate to the French senate. A first for a magazine like “Elle”.
GOOD!

– Anina Ciuciu : « Au Sénat, je ne serai pas la Rom de service » in: Elle. 17.08.2017. http://www.elle.fr/Societe/Interviews/Anina-Ciuciu-Au-Senat-je-ne-serai-pas-la-rom-de-service-3520208 [link-preview url=”http://www.elle.fr/Societe/Interviews/Anina-Ciuciu-Au-Senat-je-ne-serai-pas-la-rom-de-service-3520208″]

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French Chronicle …

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Holidays are over, and Roma are back in the news … In Angers, in Western France, a camp will probably dismantled; in Nantes, the municipality is voting an action plan for Roma; in Salliers; a Nazi Swastika was painted on the site of the former Roma concentration camp; in Montreuil. 13 families are still on the street, one year after having been expulsed; in Paris, on the Porte de la Chapelle, the 35th expulsion (yes) just took place; near Paris, an illegal dump is allegedly created by Roma; in the North, in Lille, people bemoan the insecurity with beggars and others near the railway station; and finally, in Strasbourg, there is a potential case of tuberculosis in a camp.

– Angers Le camp des Roms menacé d’expulsion rue du Maine. In: Le Courrier de l’Ouest. 17.08.2017. http://www.courrierdelouest.fr/actualite/angers-le-camp-des-roms-menace-d-expulsion-rue-du-maine-17-08-2017-328166
– Nantes Métropole Un plan d’action pour les Roms. In: Presse Océan. 17.08.2017. http://www.presseocean.fr/actualite/nantes-metropole-un-plan-daction-pour-les-roms-17-08-2017-241923
– Elle est où, l’horreur? In: Médiapart. 19.08.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/190817/elle-est-ou-lhorreur
– Montreuil, épicétout. In: Médiapart. 17.08.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/170817/montreuil-epicetout
– Porte de la Chapelle: c’est la 35ème évacuation! In: Médiapart. 18.08.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/arthur-porto/blog/180817/porte-de-la-chapelle-cest-la-35eme-evacuation
– Carrières-sous-Poissy – Triel : la plaine transformée en vaste décharge à ciel ouvert. In: Le Parisien. 16.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/triel-sur-seine-78510/carrieres-sous-poissy-triel-la-plaine-transformee-en-vaste-decharge-a-ciel-ouvert-16-08-2017-7196004.php
– L’insécurité autour de la gare Lille-Flandres inquiète riverains et commerçants. In: Nord Éclair. 14.08.2017. http://www.nordeclair.fr/82993/article/2017-08-14/l-insecurite-autour-de-la-gare-lille-flandres-inquiete-riverains-et-commercants
– Strasbourg : suspicion d’un cas de tuberculose dans un camp de migrants. In: FR3 Grand Est. 14.08.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/grand-est/bas-rhin/strasbourg-0/suspicion-cas-tuberculose-camp-refugies-1311273.html [link-preview url=”https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/190817/elle-est-ou-lhorreur “]

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

UK Project

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A study on the integration of Roma in Eastern UK is being helped by several Roma of the community.

– Community champions from Roma gypsy communities in Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Luton, Peterborough and Southend to help Fenland Council in £150,000 study. In: The Wisbech Standard. 17.08.2017. http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/community-champions-from-roman-gypsy-communities-in-great-yarmouth-ipswich-luton-peterborough-and-southend-to-help-fenland-council-in-150-000-study-1-5153629 [link-preview url=”http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/community-champions-from-roman-gypsy-communities-in-great-yarmouth-ipswich-luton-peterborough-and-southend-to-help-fenland-council-in-150-000-study-1-5153629″]

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Italian Press

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An Italian article about Roma thieves who use beautiful and well-dressed woman to enter palaces and rob the places, or simply to steal tourists. The clan is apparently successful, for they all live in luxurious villas in the East of Rome.
Bad publicity for all.

– La banda delle “veline” rom: si fingono turiste e si intrufolano nei palazzi di Roma. In: Secolo l’Italia. 12.08.2017. http://www.secoloditalia.it/2017/08/la-banda-delle-veline-rom-si-fingono-turiste-e-si-intrufolano-nei-palazzi-di-roma/ [link-preview url=”http://www.secoloditalia.it/2017/08/la-banda-delle-veline-rom-si-fingono-turiste-e-si-intrufolano-nei-palazzi-di-roma/”]

Italie Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Italy and Romnja

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Italian Romnja are taking their future in their own hands and are fighting against discrimination, racism, and stereotypes.
Good!

– “Change can start from us”: Roma women in Italy fight for their rights. In: Open Democracy – 50.50. 16.08.2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/claudia-torrisi/roma-women-rights-italy [link-preview url=”https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/claudia-torrisi/roma-women-rights-italy”]

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Travellers in the UK

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An open letter by a Romani parish councillor on the lack of camping sites for Roma travellers.

– Letter: There Is A Lack of Provision of Gypsy and Traveller Pitches. In: The Guilford Dragon News. 13.08.2017. http://www.guildford-dragon.com/2017/08/12/letter-lack-provision-gypsy-traveller-pitches/ [link-preview url=”http://www.guildford-dragon.com/2017/08/12/letter-lack-provision-gypsy-traveller-pitches/”]

Autriche Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Stolpersteine in Salzburg

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A report on the “Stolpersteine” in Salzburg, the small stones on the pavement commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. In Salzburg, there are a dozen of stones devoted to Roma, even though they were the largest victim group in that city.
Needless to say, these memorials are still controversial in Austria.

– Austrians tread carefully as underfoot Holocaust memorials remain controversial. In: The Times of Israel. 11.08.2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/austrians-tread-carefully-as-underfoot-holocaust-memorials-remain-controversial/ [link-preview url=”http://www.timesofisrael.com/austrians-tread-carefully-as-underfoot-holocaust-memorials-remain-controversial/”]

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French Chronicle …

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Dire statistics on Roma in France: 4’382 Roma were expulsed in France in the first six months of the year from 50 camps or squats, 2’689 by the police, 867 after a fire, and 796 “voluntarily”… they haven’t been re-lodged, which is against the French law. This cat and mouse play has been lasting for serval years. In Marseilles, an article shows the impact of such constant expulsions on the families, while in Paris, the Roma in Montreuil are still on the street, a year after their expulsion. The fate of a family from Montenegro which will be expulsed gives a face to these policies.

– Des milliers de Roms toujours expulsés chaque année sans relogement. In: Boursorama. 10.08.2017. http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/des-milliers-de-roms-toujours-expulses-chaque-annee-sans-relogement-b483a202783105264df70980b4bc0c5a
– Marseille : la descente aux enfers, à force d’expulsions. In: La Marseillaise. 07.08.2017. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/marseille/societe/62667-la-descente-aux-enfers-a-force-d-expulsions
– Montreuil : une année d’errance pour les familles Roms de la Boissière. In: Le Parisien. 10.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/montreuil-93100/montreuil-une-annee-d-errance-pour-les-familles-roms-de-la-boissiere-10-08-2017-7186014.php
– Des familles monténégrines, bientôt expulsées, vont se retrouver à la rue. In: La Voix du Nord. 11.08.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/203322/article/2017-08-11/des-familles-montenegrines-bientot-expulsees-vont-se-retrouver-la-rue [link-preview url=”http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/des-milliers-de-roms-toujours-expulses-chaque-annee-sans-relogement-b483a202783105264df70980b4bc0c5a “]

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Xavier Raufer and Roma

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An extremely disturbing article by the French essayist Xavier Raufer (a pen name since 1979 with his true name being Christian de Bongain). In this article he stresses the increase of break ins in France (a fact) and attributes it almost exclusively to Roma (a fantasy). Facts to that effect he doesn’t have. This is pure speculation and actually incitation to hate.
Not surprising for a man who spent his formative years in an extreme rightist movement called “Occident” …

– Hausse continue des cambriolages en France… mais qui en sont les auteurs ? In: Politico. 12.08.2017. http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/hausse-continue-cambriolages-en-francemais-qui-en-sont-auteurs-xavier-raufer-3134893.html [link-preview url=”http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/hausse-continue-cambriolages-en-francemais-qui-en-sont-auteurs-xavier-raufer-3134893.html”]

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

Equality?

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Welsh travellers in Cardiff are billed up to three time the average water costs of a family in Wales… Really?

– People on a Cardiff traveller site are angry they pay three times more for water than an average home. In: Wales Online. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/people-cardiff-traveller-site-angry-13461715 [link-preview url=”http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/people-cardiff-traveller-site-angry-13461715″]

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Travellers and Roma

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An article about the “fear of the Gypsies” in Germany, following the arrival of Irish Travellers in Düsseldorf.

– Die Angst vor dem “Zigeuner” In: RP Online. 12.08.2017. http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irish-traveller-die-angst-vor-dem-zigeuner-aid-1.7007763 [link-preview url=”http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/irish-traveller-die-angst-vor-dem-zigeuner-aid-1.7007763″]

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Twitter, Hate Speech and Art

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Shahak Shapira did an action in front of the Twitter Headquarters in Germany: he printed many racist comments found in Twitter about which he regularly complained on the pavement. Watch …

– This artist graffitied the worst tweets he could find, right outside Twitter’s office. In: Upworthy.com. 11.08.2017. http://www.upworthy.com/this-artist-graffitied-the-worst-tweets-he-could-find-right-outside-twitters-office
– Israeli artist trolls Twitter with hate graffiti outside headquarters in Hamburg. In: i24. 08.08.2017. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/152526-170809-german-artist-trolls-twitter-with-hate-graffiti-outside-headquarters-in-hamburg [link-preview url=”https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/152526-170809-german-artist-trolls-twitter-with-hate-graffiti-outside-headquarters-in-hamburg”]

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

UK Press

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And here we go. Father sells his daughter into slavery in the UK. And this in the Times.
BAD.

– Roma girl, 12, was sold by father to work for British family. In: The Times. 11.08.2017. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/roma-girl-12-was-sold-by-father-to-work-for-british-family-bm0v57pgw [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/roma-girl-12-was-sold-by-father-to-work-for-british-family-bm0v57pgw”]

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