The head of the German Railways visited the Sinti and Roma Documentation centre. He stated there is no place in the railways for antitziganism.
Criminal charges were filed against the city of Hannover for discrimination against Sinti and Roma.
The City of Hannover has admitted that they discriminated against Roma for years.
Several articles about the constant discrimination faced by Roma in Germany. Be it searching for job or as refugees, the picture is not flattering for Germany.
An interview with the Roma writer Michal Šamko. He published his first Roma-Czech poem at the end of the nineties in the magazine Mladý svět. He returned to it fully only after meeting the Romani writer Milena Hübschmannová, who made him write in Romanes as well. Since then, Michal Šamko (56) has published not only in the journal of Romani studies Romano džaniben, but also in the monthly magazine for world literature PLAV.
He says “They yelled ‘gypsy filth’ at me at school. What’s worse is that they scold my granddaughter in the same way.”
Sad.
A review of the inherent racism against Roma in society.
A long-winded story. Roma in Limanowa, Poland, were evicted from their home. They wanted to buy a house in Laskowa using funds from the so-called Roma program. The residents organized a protest and collected 300 signatures, and the commune government intends to take into account the voice of the local community and not consent to the purchase.
Another article on the exhibition on anti-Roma racism in several German Railway stations.
A gas station in LA is banning Romanja from its premises, prompting an outcry. The sign posted in the station says: “No Gypsy women in long shoplifting skirts allowed in the store.”
For tolerance and respect: Deutsche Bahn presents the first exhibition against antigypsyism in the Railways stations of Dresden, Wiesbaden, and Nuremberg.
A special two-hour long debate between LL junior (László Lesi), a well-known musician-performer and László Toroczkai, president of Mi Hazánk, a extreme right party in Hungary.
The use of by the party of Roma for political purposes, citing demographic issues, gypsy crime as a perceived or real concept were discussed. Of course, Trianon was also mentioned …
Well, another old German crooner sings songs that at best can be described as out of fashion, and at worst, borderline racist. In this case, one example is the song “Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben” [Gypsy life is funny].
MP Jozef Pročko (OĽaNO) has a sprained cervical spine and a bruised head after Monday’s incident in Lučenec where he was attacked. At the press conference, he appeared with a fixation collar and announced that he had filed a criminal complaint in connection with the physical attacks on his person.
Pročko, but also OĽaNO candidates Peter Pollák and Viliam Tankó talked about the escalating attacks at their meetings. “We are the target of verbal and physical attacks. Their reason is our Roma origin,” added Pollák.
It was a group of Roma candidates who led the election campaign on Monday in Lučenec, where Prochko also came to support them. “Unknown people started disrupting our event. They shouted at us that we are gypsies, parasites,” Pollák told journalists, adding that after the verbal attacks, there were also physical attacks on Proček.
They are fighting against racism.
English reports on the first report for racism against Roma in Germany.
The first report issued by the new responsible for antigypsyism in Germany on racist acts against Roma in Germany is shocking. More than 600 cases are recorded within a year, and, what is worse, it often involves the state.
A lecture by a federal police officer at the federal government’s open day in Berlin last weekend sparked sharp criticism from the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the religious policy spokesman for the Green parliamentary group, Volker Beck.
According to the Central Council and Beck, the representative of the Berlin Directorate of the Federal Police gave a public lecture in the Federal Ministry of the Interior entitled “Beware of thieves! How pickpockets use tricks and how you can successfully ruin their criminal journey.” In it, Roma are said to have been generally referred to as “large criminal families” organized into “criminal clans” that move through Europe. Other ethnic groups were also racially discriminated against: each ethnic group, North African or Polish, had “its own criminal methods”.
Another article on the mayor’s initiative for changing the laws on social benefits clearly directed against the Roma minority without mentioning them.
There must be better solutions.
Roma are mostly presented negatively in the media, they still face discrimination! This follows from a survey by Romea. Respondents to the survey had the opportunity to choose Roma personalities, who were then invited by the first Roma internet television to the Desetiminutovka Plus program. “Some mentioned specific names, others just fields from which Roma should be invited to our program. Some of the names of Romany personalities that appeared in the poll, we have already had as guests on the show.
The Green politician Renate Künast’s move to stop using the term “clan criminality” by the North Rhine-Westphalia, a term that was heavily criticised by Roma organisations was rejected. NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) told the “Bild” (Saturday edition): “You have to name problems if you want to solve them. Out of sheer fear of stigmatization, clan criminality was ignored for 30 years. We have to spoon up the soup now”.
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