Fire – rroma.org https://rroma.org Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:29:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Fire – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 https://rroma.org/33823-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=33823-2 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:29:23 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33823 Al the articles this week on Roma in France focused on two fires in two Roma camps in Nantes and Saint Herblain. In the “Prairie des Mauves” in Nantes, 10 hectares burnt down, most caravans were destroyed. In the other fire in Saint Herblain, nearly 8 hectares and several caravans burn down. Now nearly 200 people have nowhere to go.

According to the police, the fire in the Prairie des Mauves started when a car caught fire.

In Saint Herblain, one paper suggests that the Roma were invovled in planting canabis, although there are no proofs that the plants found were planted by Roma.

]]> Fire https://rroma.org/fire-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire-4 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:14:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31949 Ondrej Balog shows only ruins of what remained of his home after last week’s fire. Ttwo small children died in the flames. “I built it for my children, for my grandchildren, so that we could all be together, so that we could be happy. If at least there was water, something could be saved,” says the victims’ grandfather Ondrej Balog with difficulty.

Although water is brought to the settlement, the official connection to the houses is complicated by illegal construction and the debts of non-payers. Most locals are therefore dependent on the only drinking water dispenser, which operates on a credit system. When a fire breaks out, residents without access to hydrants are practically helpless.

]]> Firefighters and Roma https://rroma.org/firefighters-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=firefighters-and-roma Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:39:16 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31920 Apparently, four responding firefighters and equipment were attacked by residents of the Lipany settlement in Slovakia, who started throwing stones at the officers.

Circumstances and reasons are not mentioned.

]]> Fire https://rroma.org/fire-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire-3 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:50:17 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31676 A fire broke up on an illegal dump in a Roma neighbourhood in Varna.

]]> Fire https://rroma.org/fire-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire-2 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:55:04 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30917 A fire burned in the Soifia “Lyulin” district at night. Accirding to the article, “It houses a temporary accommodation center. Socially disadvantaged Roma families are accommodated there. People from the area have been complaining for years about numerous problems related to crime, poor hygiene and aggressive behaviour of some of the residents. The place has become a ghetto.”

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-335/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-335 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:16:16 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30045 Not much in France this week … A fire in a Roma camp near Nantes, in Western France; one site also in Wenstern France needs rehabilitation, as it has been too degraded; and one camp being dismantled near Paris. 

]]> Fire on a Beach https://rroma.org/fire-on-a-beach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire-on-a-beach Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:27:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29150 A fire on a beach in Otmanli near Burgas, Bulgaria, is being blamed on the nearby Roma settlement, as according to the paper, Roma often use barbecue. They then add that one doesn’t yet know the exact cause …

]]> Slovakia: Fire https://rroma.org/slovakia-fire-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-fire-4 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:26:30 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29147 According to a news article, 140 Roma lost their houses because of a fire in their settlement in the Poprad district.

]]> Fire https://rroma.org/fire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:57:55 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27671 The quick reaction of a group of Roma prevented a tragedy in Topoľčany. A fire broke out in a family house on Tuesday, March 25, in the afternoon. Two women who lived in it without electricity, water and gas were trapped in thick smoke (no, it was not a Roma house).

At that time, Roma were working in the yard, helping the owner of the house with cleaning the land. When they noticed smoke pouring through the cracks in the windows, one of them did not hesitate to act. He ran into the building to save the women from danger.

]]> Commemoration https://rroma.org/commemoration-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=commemoration-2 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:47:54 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27634 On Saturday evening, Romani students during the BARUVAS meeting in Brno symbolically joined the memorial service for the victims of the tragic fire in the Romani settlement in Veľký Šariš, Slovakia. Each of the twenty-five participants lit a candle and together honored the memory of four small children and their great-grandmother who died in the night fire.

 

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