Several articles are currently going around in France about “Gens du Voyage” – Travellers – who violently protested in Grenoble and near a prison where one of them was incarcerated and who was not allowed to get out of jail for a funeral of someone of his family …

The foreign Press took these travellers as being Rroma. Are they? Are they not? This highlights the issue of a way of life versus a minority. By far not all Rroma travel (think about 12 Mio travellers, we would see them more), and not all travellers are Rroma.

Could Journalists start thinking?

• Destruction, mutinerie: colère de gens du voyage dans les Alpes. In: L’Express. 20.10.2015. http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/isere-des-gens-du-voyage-provoquent-de-violents-incidents_1727839.html
• Traditionnellement, les gens du voyage s’efforcent d’être «le plus discret possible». In: Le Figaro. 21.10.2015. http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/10/21/01016-20151021ARTFIG00199-traditionnellement-les-gens-du-voyage-s-efforcent-d-etre-le-plus-discret-possible.php
• Brandstiftung, Straßenblockade und Meuterei als Druckmittel für Freigang. In: Euronews. 21.10.2015. http://de.euronews.com/2015/10/21/brandstiftung-strassenblockade-und-meuterei-als-druckmittel-fuer-freigang/
• Wütende Landfahrer auf Extratour. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. 21.10.2015. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/gewalteskalation-in-grenoble-wuetende-landfahrer-auf-extratour-13868917.html