The story behind the now famous Casamonica Roma mafia clan.
– Mafia di Roma: 41 bis per Giuseppe Casamonica. In: Antimafia. 08.09.2018. http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/mafie-news/287-mafia-capitale/71454-mafia-di-roma-41-bis-per-giuseppe-casamonica.html [link-preview url=”http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/mafie-news/287-mafia-capitale/71454-mafia-di-roma-41-bis-per-giuseppe-casamonica.html”]
The story behind the now famous Casamonica Roma mafia clan.
– Mafia di Roma: 41 bis per Giuseppe Casamonica. In: Antimafia. 08.09.2018. http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/mafie-news/287-mafia-capitale/71454-mafia-di-roma-41-bis-per-giuseppe-casamonica.html [link-preview url=”http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/mafie-news/287-mafia-capitale/71454-mafia-di-roma-41-bis-per-giuseppe-casamonica.html”]
A Roma festival in the Berlin Neuköln neighbourhood. This is the work of a Roma NGO, called Centrum.
– Leute in Bewegung bringen. In: TAZ. 07.09.2018. http://www.taz.de/!5531121/ [link-preview url=”http://www.taz.de/!5531121/”]
A Roma festival in the Berlin Neuköln neighbourhood. This is the work of a Roma NGO, called Centrum.
– Leute in Bewegung bringen. In: TAZ. 07.09.2018. http://www.taz.de/!5531121/ [link-preview url=”http://www.taz.de/!5531121/”]
A young Roma girl dies. The family asks the priest to celebrate a mass for the girl. He refuses – allegedly because the girl was baptised by a Uniat priest (the Ukrainian Orthodox church).
No empathy and probably a good dose of racism.
– В пресс-службе Волынской епархии УПЦ объяснили, почему священник не отпел ребенка ромов. In: Religion Unian. 04.09.2018. https://religions.unian.net/orthodoxy/10249167-v-press-sluzhbe-volynskoy-eparhii-upc-obyasnili-pochemu-svyashchennik-ne-otpel-rebenka-romov.html
– НА ВОЛЫНИ СВЯЩЕННИК УПЦ МП ОТКАЗАЛСЯ ОТПЕВАТЬ РЕБЕНКА РОМОВ | ФОТО. In: 1Com. https://1k.com.ua/na-volyni-svyashhennik-upts-mp-otkazalsya-otpevat-rebenka-romov-foto.html [link-preview url=”https://religions.unian.net/orthodoxy/10249167-v-press-sluzhbe-volynskoy-eparhii-upc-obyasnili-pochemu-svyashchennik-ne-otpel-rebenka-romov.html “]
To the point: In German, one should not use the concept of “Ausländerfeindlichkeit” – which can be translated by Xenophobia – but connotes more the hate of foreigners, but rather state that this is outright racism as there are very few chances if any that a blond Dane or Swede be confronted to it.
If you are Rom, black, or non Northern European, then things get more difficult.
– Wie Worte die Realität verfälschen. In: Spiegel Online. 06.09.2018. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/chemnitz-berichterstattung-warum-auslaenderfeindlichkeit-das-falsche-wort-ist-a-1226620.html [link-preview url=”http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/chemnitz-berichterstattung-warum-auslaenderfeindlichkeit-das-falsche-wort-ist-a-1226620.html”]
There is an increased drive for Canada to officially recognise the Roma Holocaust. Prime Minister Trudeau already did so personally, but the official recognition will go through the parliament.
– Roma community campaigns for feds’ official recognition of genocide during Holocaust. In: The Hill Times. 05.09.2018. https://www.hilltimes.com/2018/09/05/roma-community-campaigns-feds-official-recognition-genocide-holocaust/156168 [link-preview url=”https://www.hilltimes.com/2018/09/05/roma-community-campaigns-feds-official-recognition-genocide-holocaust/156168″]
In the middle of the election campaign where the extreme nationalist right is making deep inroads, a Rom is killed, and no one speaks about it.
The truth about the increase racism and attacks against Roma in the country.
– Wenn Kinder einen Roma töten und keiner hinsieht. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 04.09.2018. http://www.fr.de/politik/rassismus-in-schweden-wenn-kinder-einen-roma-toeten-und-keiner-hinsieht-a-1575826?GEPC=s2 [link-preview url=”http://www.fr.de/politik/rassismus-in-schweden-wenn-kinder-einen-roma-toeten-und-keiner-hinsieht-a-1575826?GEPC=s2″]
Ricsi and Tibi, two Hungarian Roma who studied in Miskolc in Eastern Hungary nearly have 20’000 followers on Youtube. They are making fun of stereotypes and daily discriminations Roma are confronted to. But they also want Roma to go to university and are engaged in helping them achieve it.
– « Nous aimerions que, pour les Roms, la possibilité de réussir devienne une évidence » In: Le Courrier d’Europe Centrale. 26.08.2018. https://courrierdeuropecentrale.fr/nous-aimerions-que-pour-les-roms-la-possibilite-de-reussir-devienne-une-evidence/ [link-preview url=”https://courrierdeuropecentrale.fr/nous-aimerions-que-pour-les-roms-la-possibilite-de-reussir-devienne-une-evidence/”]
Two exhibitions on the Roma Holocaust in Germany.
– Ausstellung zum Völkermord an den Sinti und Roma. In: Neue Westfälische. 30.08.2018. https://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herford/herford/22229778_Ausstellung-zum-Voelkermord-an-den-Sinti-und-Roma.html
– Ausstellung zu Schicksal der Sinti. In: Nordwest Zeitung. 28.08.2018. https://www.nwzonline.de/ammerland/politik/rastede-ausstellung_a_50,2,1404006956.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herford/herford/22229778_Ausstellung-zum-Voelkermord-an-den-Sinti-und-Roma.html “]
A reportage on Ukrainian media in Slovakia – in Košice in the Lunik IX neighbourhood – and a reflection of Roma in Europe. What is positive is that they say that the integration of Roma is more of a problem of the majority than of the Roma. What is less so is that they say idiocies (that Roma lived in tent prior to the creation of the “vertical” ghettoes) and that they push a whole series of stereotypes.
– Місце ромів у Європі: як живуть та хто допомагає. In: Fakti. 28.08.2018. https://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/svit/20180828-mistse-romiv-u-yevropi-yak-zhyvut-ta-hto-dopomagaye/ [link-preview url=”https://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/svit/20180828-mistse-romiv-u-yevropi-yak-zhyvut-ta-hto-dopomagaye/”]
Another article about the Roma thieves in Kyiv’s railway station. And again the generalisations / stereotypes.
– Банда цыган на центральном вокзале Киева ворует деньги у пассажиров (ВИДЕО). In: UA Reporter. 27.08.2018. https://ua-reporter.com/news/banda-cygan-na-centralnom-vokzale-kieva-voruet-dengi-u-passazhirov-video [link-preview url=”https://ua-reporter.com/news/banda-cygan-na-centralnom-vokzale-kieva-voruet-dengi-u-passazhirov-video”]
Not surprisingly, Russians are getting increasingly nationalists and think that Russia is for Russians. The first victims thereof are clearly Roma …
Bad, especially in a country where there were very little stereotypes against Roma.
– Mehr Russen lehnen Fremde ab. In: Tageschau. 27.08.2018. https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/lewada-institut-101.html [link-preview url=”https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/lewada-institut-101.html”]
No comments – and a nice acknowledgement.
– ‘Hell on Earth was a German creation,’ says Foreign Minister on visit to Auschwitz. In: The Local (DE). 20.08.2018. https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/hell-on-earth-was-a-german-creation-says-foreign-minister-on-visit-to-auschwitz [link-preview url=”https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/hell-on-earth-was-a-german-creation-says-foreign-minister-on-visit-to-auschwitz”]
A young researcher from Göttingen in Germany has investigated the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism and comes out with a scathing review, saying Switzerland turns a blind eye on institutional racism and that the commission is actually fuelling it.
– Ist die Schweiz blind für Behörden-Rassismus? Das behauptet zumindest diese Forscherin. In: Watson. 19.08.2018. https://www.watson.ch/!519782544 [link-preview url=”https://www.watson.ch/!519782544″]
A judge in Fribourg (Switzerland) dismissed the complaint against racism that was lodged against 5 professional associations (three from Fribourg, two overall from Switzerland) who had advertised last year in the papers against giving work to Travellers and Roma. In these pamphlets, travellers and Roma were accused of shoddy work and practises, if not of outright fraud.
This highlights the difficulty in Switzerland to win such cases.
– Plainte pour discrimination raciale rejetée à Fribourg. In: Swissinfo. 17.08.2018. https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/plainte-pour-discrimination-raciale-rejetée-à-fribourg/44333494 [link-preview url=”https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/plainte-pour-discrimination-raciale-rejetée-à-fribourg/44333494″]
A really shocking article from Bosnia. Residents from Mostar are protesting because “many” Roma are coming to Mostar, are stealing, sexually harassing women, burning tires, and generally attacking inhabitants.
Well … Let’s not forget that these brave Bosnians were all in agreement to ethnically cleanse Roma out of their respective regions. As a result, they effectively deprived most Roma of their homes and of a living.
– Med staroselci vre: »Izpostavljeni smo krajam, spolnim nadlegovanjem ter fizičnim napadom Romov«. In: Democracija. 15.08.2018. http://www.demokracija.si/tujina/v-mostarskemu-naselju-vre-izpostavljeni-smo-krajam-spolnim-nadlegovanjem-ter-fizicnim-napadom-romov.html [link-preview url=”http://www.demokracija.si/tujina/v-mostarskemu-naselju-vre-izpostavljeni-smo-krajam-spolnim-nadlegovanjem-ter-fizicnim-napadom-romov.html”]
An interview with Anina Ciuciu, Romni from Romania who lives in France and was a candidate to the French Senate during the last elections.
– ROMA-AKTIVISTIN SPRICHT ÜBER DISKRIMINIERUNG. In: Roma Anti Discrimination Network. 1.08.2018. http://ran.eu.com/roma-aktivistin-spricht-uber-diskriminierung/ [link-preview url=”http://ran.eu.com/roma-aktivistin-spricht-uber-diskriminierung/”]
The descendants of an Auschwitz survivor were recently harassed and threatened in Zetel in Northern Germany.
– Sinti wurden in Zetel rassistisch angefeindet. In: NWZ Online. 14.08.2018. https://www.nwzonline.de/friesland/politik/zetel-entsetzen-in-friesland-sinti-wurden-in-zetel-rassistisch-angefeindet_a_50,2,971417785.html [link-preview url=”https://www.nwzonline.de/friesland/politik/zetel-entsetzen-in-friesland-sinti-wurden-in-zetel-rassistisch-angefeindet_a_50,2,971417785.html”]
A long article on the Casamonica mafia family who happens to be a Sinti family. This reinforces the common view of Roma (although eh article claim that Sinti are a different ethnic group) …
Bad.
– Le ville dei Casamonica come in Scarface e il tesoro milionario dei Sinti. In: Le Iene. 14.08.2018. https://www.iene.mediaset.it/2018/news/casamonica-zingari-sinti-ville-sfarzo-30-milioni-cerveteri-furti-appartamento_162465.shtml [link-preview url=”https://www.iene.mediaset.it/2018/news/casamonica-zingari-sinti-ville-sfarzo-30-milioni-cerveteri-furti-appartamento_162465.shtml”]
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