In one of the poorest barrios in Spain, in El Vacie, a theatre company has enrolled Rroma women to play in classical plays, with great success.
– The Roma Women Taking Center Stage in Spain’s Theater Scene. In: Broadly. 02.02.2017. https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-roma-women-taking-center-stage-in-spains-theater-scene [link-preview url=”https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-roma-women-taking-center-stage-in-spains-theater-scene”]
A documentary of Deutsche Welle on a philharmonic orchestra that is composed entirely from Rroma and Sinti …
– The Roma and Sinti Philharmonic. In: DW. 25.01.2017. http://m.dw.com/en/the-roma-and-sinti-philharmonic/av-37271485 [link-preview url=”http://m.dw.com/en/the-roma-and-sinti-philharmonic/av-37271485″]
The Ditch government sets over 8 Mio EUR for a Dutch Holocaust Museum and Memorial commemorating the ca. 102’000 Jews, Rroma and Sinti who were murdered in that country during World War Two.
– Dutch government allocates over $8.5 million to establishing Holocaust museum. In: JTA. 01.02.2017. http://www.jta.org/2017/02/01/news-opinion/world/dutch-government-allocates-over-8-5-million-to-establishing-holocaust-museum [link-preview url=”http://www.jta.org/2017/02/01/news-opinion/world/dutch-government-allocates-over-8-5-million-to-establishing-holocaust-museum”]
Criminality – this time in the form of a “Roma Mafia Ring” that stole goods to the tune of 1 Mio in Greece. Bad for the image. And bad journalism too.
– Police display loot of ‘Roma mafia’ robbery ring, In: Ekathimerini. 01.02.2017. http://www.ekathimerini.com/215803/gallery/ekathimerini/in-images/police-display-loot-of-roma-mafia-robbery-ring [link-preview url=”http://www.ekathimerini.com/215803/gallery/ekathimerini/in-images/police-display-loot-of-roma-mafia-robbery-ring”]
A real piece of official news from Hungary. It is a letter to the editor to an article we also published here. The Orban government did a lot for Rroma. Yes, you read it. For example advocating segregation in schools (for the good of the Rroma – according to Mr. Balog, Human Resource Minister), and many more “good” deeds.
This is alternative news …
– Hungary is not ‘hell’ for Roma. In: Politico. 30.01.2017. http://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-is-not-hell-for-roma/ [link-preview url=”http://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-is-not-hell-for-roma/”]
Bad !
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/roma-king-offers-to-build-trump-s-mexico-wall-02-01-2017 [link-preview url=”http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/roma-king-offers-to-build-trump-s-mexico-wall-02-01-2017″]
Dorin Cioaba, from the family of the former kalderaša „king“ Cioba said in an int review that Rroma would be willing to work on the Trump Wall, as they have no work in their home countries.
He really missed an opportunity not to say anything.
– Sel-proclaimed Roma King says his people want to build Trump’s wall between the US and Mexico. In: Romania Insider. 31.01.2017. http://www.romania-insider.com/self-proclaimed-roma-king-says-gypsies-want-build-trumps-wall-u-s-mexico/ [link-preview url=”http://www.romania-insider.com/self-proclaimed-roma-king-says-gypsies-want-build-trumps-wall-u-s-mexico/”]
A new exhibition titled “when Berlin was Gypsy-free” opened in Berlin. The exhibition highlights the persecution of Rroma and Sinti in Germany and in its capital and especially the “cleansing” of the city prior to the 1936 Olympic Games.
– Als Berlin “Zigeunerfrei” war. In: Junge Welt. 01.02.2017. https://www.jungewelt.de/2017/02-01/139.php [link-preview url=”https://www.jungewelt.de/2017/02-01/139.php”]
The Salvation Army in Lausanne opened up a shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Most of the people taking advantage of it in the cold spell in Lausanne are Rroma – mostly from Romania.
– «Ce qui compte, c’est mettre les enfants au chaud» In: 24 Heures. 27.01.2017. http://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/lausanne-region/c-mettre-enfants-chaud/story/11029090 [link-preview url=”http://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/lausanne-region/c-mettre-enfants-chaud/story/11029090″]
The president (and presidential candidate) of the Front National said in a meeting in Dinan, in the north, that criminality and insecurity were the result of the presence of 1’000 Rroma in that city.
This is racism at its worst.
SHAME
– Sécurité à Denain : Marine Le Pen met en cause “1000 Roms” In: FR3 Nord Pas de Calais. 27.01.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nord-pas-de-calais/nord/denain/securite-denain-marine-pen-met-cause-1-000-roms-1184947.html
– Pour Marine Le Pen, il y a de l’insécurité « parce qu’il y a 1 000 Roms sur la ville » In: La Voix du Nord. 27.01.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/109864/article/2017-01-27/pour-marine-le-pen-il-y-de-l-insecurite-parce-qu-il-y-1-000-roms-sur-la-ville
– Dans le Nord, Marine Le Pen joue la carte anti-Fillon. In: L’Oeuil sur Le Front. 27.01.2017. https://oeilsurlefront.liberation.fr/actualites/dans-le-nord-marine-le-pen-en-croisade-contre-fillon [link-preview url=”https://oeilsurlefront.liberation.fr/actualites/dans-le-nord-marine-le-pen-en-croisade-contre-fillon”]
A short article on hate crimes against minorities, especially Rroma, that are unreported in Southern Wales. Up to 40% of such crimes are never reported.
– Gwent hate crime going unreported. In: Free Press. 26.01.2017. http://www.freepressseries.co.uk/news/15049435.Gwent_hate_crime_going_unreported/ [link-preview url=”http://www.freepressseries.co.uk/news/15049435.Gwent_hate_crime_going_unreported/”]
This year, Jews again boycotted the Croatian commemorations of the Holocaust. Several Rroma organisations too, although several other did attend.
An explanation of why this boycott: The history is being quietly rewritten in Croatia, and the crimes of the Ustasha and the murders they committed are being retouched.
Rroma and Jews were their victims in camps such as the infamous Jasenovac.
Why Croatian Jews Boycotted This Year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. In: The Smithonian. 27.01.2017. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-croatian-jews-boycotted-years-holocaust-remembrance-day-180961958/ [link-preview url=”http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-croatian-jews-boycotted-years-holocaust-remembrance-day-180961958/”]
Jean Marie Le Pen, who had been condemned in first instance for his statements against Rroma is appealing the decisions. Let’s hope he will not succeed!
– Bouches-du-Rhône: Jean-Marie Le Pen jugé pour des propos sur les Roms en appel. In: 20 Minutes (FR). 24.01.2017. http://www.20minutes.fr/marseille/2001307-20170124-bouches-rhone-jean-marie-pen-juge-propos-roms-appel [link-preview url=”http://www.20minutes.fr/marseille/2001307-20170124-bouches-rhone-jean-marie-pen-juge-propos-roms-appel”]
Years after the end of the Kosovo war, Rroma still await justice for the crimes committed against them in that region by the UCK and Kosovo nationalists. They were evicted from their houses, killed, simply disappeared. And most of all, they were kicked out of their country, a country where they had stayed since their arrival more than 1000 years ago.
SHAME
– Roma in Kosovo: The justice that never came. In: Al Jazeera. 26.01.2017. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/roma-kosovo-justice-170112134149767.html [link-preview url=”http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/roma-kosovo-justice-170112134149767.html”]
Testimonies of Rroma and Sinti from Auschwitz.
– AUSCHWITZ AND THE TESTIMONY OF THE SINTI AND ROMA. In: Romarchiv. https://blog.romarchive.eu/?p=7336 [link-preview url=”https://blog.romarchive.eu/?p=7336″]
A good article on how Germany remembers and deals with its past.
– Holocaust remembrance day: How Germany reflects on its Nazi past. In: The Local (DE). 27.01.2017. https://www.thelocal.de/20170127/holocaust-remembrance-day-how-germany-reflects-on-its-nazi-past [link-preview url=”https://www.thelocal.de/20170127/holocaust-remembrance-day-how-germany-reflects-on-its-nazi-past”]
More news this week in France. Worryingly, besides the usual expulsions, there are many news about criminal Rroma. This is really bad!
In Paris, the Rroma camping on the petite ceinture railway and in a disaffected tunnel will have to go; near the Marne river, a controversy about garbage left by Rroma, and an action to clean the banks of the Marne; the story of a Rromni, Parashkeva, whose caravan was destroyed during an evacuation in the North of France in Loos; a view from above of a camp in Hellemes, also in the North of France; and an article about what happened to people whose camp was evacuated recently.
Then, crime …
In the North, where 4 Rroma were stealing because of hunger; two Rroma arrested in Germany in a truck stolen in Western France full of tools; 9 burglaries for a couple in the South; pickpockets in Montpellier; and another article about petty theft in the South.
– Expulsion avancée pour les Roms de la petite ceinture ? In: Le Parisien. 27.01.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/expulsion-avancee-pour-les-roms-de-la-petite-ceinture-27-01-2017-6624582.php
– Paris: Un bidonville «rom» aussi dans le 17e le long de la Petite Ceinture. In: 20 Minutes (FR). 26.01.2017. http://www.20minutes.fr/paris/2003183-20170126-paris-bidonville-rom-aussi-17e-long-petite-ceinture
– Paris : le village Rom dans le tunnel de la Petite Ceinture devra disparaître. In: Le Parisien. 25.01.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75017/paris-le-village-rom-dans-le-tunnel-de-la-petite-ceinture-devra-disparaitre-25-01-2017-6617559.php
– Route de Malnoue : tout le monde se renvoie la balle ! In: Le Parisien. 25.01.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/espace-premium/seine-et-marne-77/route-de-malnoue-tout-le-monde-se-renvoie-la-balle-25-01-2017-6615024.php
– Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes. Ils ont nettoyé les bords de Marne et l’ancien camp rom. In: Le Parisien. 23.01.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/saint-thibault-des-vignes-77400/saint-thibault-des-vignes-ils-ont-nettoye-les-bords-de-marne-et-l-ancien-camp-rom-23-01-2017-6607725.php
– Parachkeva, du camp rom de la prison à un travail d’insertion. In: La Voix du Nord. 23.01.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/107799/article/2017-01-23/parachkeva-du-camp-rom-de-la-prison-un-travail-d-insertion
– L’ancienne imprimerie d’Hellemmes vue du ciel. In: La Voix du Nord. 27.01.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/110076/article/2017-01-27/l-ancienne-imprimerie-d-hellemmes-vue-du-ciel
– Que sont devenues les autres familles roms évacuées? In: La Voix du Nord. 23.01.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/107798/article/2017-01-23/que-sont-devenues-les-autres-familles-roms-evacuees
– «Ils sont allés voler parce qu’ils crèvent de faim» : direction la prison. In: La Voix du Nord. 28.01.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/110677/article/2017-01-28/ils-sont-alles-voler-parce-qu-ils-crevent-de-faim-direction-la-prison
– Deux voleurs interpellés en Allemagne à bord d’un camion d’outils volés en Loire-Atlantique. In: Breizh Info. 29.01.2017. http://www.breizh-info.com/2017/01/29/60771/deux-voleurs-roms-interpelles-allemagne-a-bord-dun-camion-doutils-voles-loire-atlantique
– Neuf cambriolages pour le couple : prison ferme. In: LKa Dépèche. 28.01.2017. http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2017/01/28/2506258-neuf-cambriolages-pour-le-couple-prison-ferme.html
– Pickpockets dans le tramway : messages et paiement sans contact. In: Métropolitain. 24.01.2017. http://e-metropolitain.fr/2017/01/24/pickpokets-dans-le-tramway-messages-et-paiement-sans-contact/#i16vj6e5Hb2Gw8EE.99
– Les chiffres de la délinquance : nouveau, le « vol à la Zidane » In: Métropolitain. 26.01.2017. http://e-metropolitain.fr/2017/01/26/crimes-et-delinquance-et-maintenant-le-vol-a-la-zidane/#mZCfH4i38XZK3QwR.99 [link-preview url=”http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/expulsion-avancee-pour-les-roms-de-la-petite-ceinture-27-01-2017-6624582.php “]
An interview of a Rroma activits on the Rroma Holocaust in the Ukraine where many Rroma were killed, most simply shor on the spot by German troops. And a side note on how to call the Holocaust – certainly not Porajmos which isu usally used as sexual assault.
In each Rroma family in the Ukraine, there have been victims of the Holocaust. Let’s not forget them!
– У Чернігові нацисти у 1942-му винищили майже всю ромську громаду міста. In: громадське радіо. 28.01.2017. https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/kyiv-donbas/u-chernigovi-nacysty-u-1942-mu-vynyshchyly-mayzhe-vsyu-romsku-gromadu-mista [link-preview url=”https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/kyiv-donbas/u-chernigovi-nacysty-u-1942-mu-vynyshchyly-mayzhe-vsyu-romsku-gromadu-mista”]
A chilling description of an attach on Rroma in North Eastern Hungary and on the general attitude of authorities towards such crimes. Hungary was condemned by the EU Court of Human Rights exactly for such an attack. But it is not an uncommon thing, unfortunately.
– Masked men attacked the Roma laborers just as the police officer had advised. In: Budapest Beacon. 28.01.2017. http://budapestbeacon.com/civil-society/masked-men-attacked-roma-laborers-just-police-officer-advised/44218 [link-preview url=”http://budapestbeacon.com/civil-society/masked-men-attacked-roma-laborers-just-police-officer-advised/44218″]
The Canton of Berne, in Switzerland is presenting a new project of law aimed at forbidding some of the work that is done by travellers such as painting, renovations etc. This measure is clearly directed against Rroma from neighbouring countries but will hit all Travellers in Switzerland.
SHAME.
– Schweizer Fahrende wehren sich. In: Berner Zeitung. 23.01.2017. http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/schweiz/Schweizer-Fahrende-wehren-sich/story/26395637
– Protest gegen ungerechtfertige Vorwürfe. In: SRF. 23.01.2017. http://www.srf.ch/news/regional/bern-freiburg-wallis/protest-gegen-ungerechtfertige-vorwuerfe
– Le canton de Berne fâche les gens du voyage. In: RFJ. 19.01.2017. https://www.rfj.ch/rfj/Actualite/Region/20170119-Le-canton-de-Berne-fache-les-gens-du-voyage.html [link-preview url=”https://www.rfj.ch/rfj/Actualite/Region/20170119-Le-canton-de-Berne-fache-les-gens-du-voyage.html”]
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