“Budapest, 8 March 2013: Roma from Aubervilliers have faced multiple evictions, with disproportionate use of police force, after their settlement was burned down last month. The European Roma Rights Centre and Médecins du Monde sent a letter to French authorities asking them to provide assistance for the families.” Read more: via Roma in France Face … Continue reading
Excerpt: “Roma: everyday victims of police violence The report submitted to the Committee gives extensive evidence of the specific targeting of Roma people by Russian police, as well as daily abuses to which they are subjected. Negative stereotypes linking Roma origin with criminal behavior remain widespread among law enforcement agents, and intolerance and xenophobic attitudes … Continue reading
“The racist expulsions of Roma carried out by the French Socialist Party (PS), whose election the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) supported, reveal the reactionary character of the NPA’s support for the PS. The NPA attempts to hide its political culpability in the persecution of the Roma by maintaining a virtual silence on the subject. The … Continue reading
“Bulgaria has been found guilty of failing to protect the right to life and of discrimination against a female Roma citizen, who filed a case at the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights has determined that Bulgarian authorities failed to properly investigate a violent assault against the woman that left … Continue reading
“Over the past few months, as Greece has sunk deeper into crisis, racist attacks against immigrants have risen sharply. Unsatisfied with the police’s response to this violence, residents of Athens have taken to patrolling a neighbourhood where thugs are known to beat up immigrants and cause damage to their shops. They call themselves “anti-fascists”. Their … Continue reading
“Budapest, 1 October 2012: The European Roma Rights Centre is calling on authorities to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of last week’s violence against Roma in Marseille. A group of 35 Roma, including 15 children, were forced to leave the piece of land where they were living by local residents, who later returned and set … Continue reading
“A group of Roma in Geneva have lost a discrimination case they had brought against Geneva police. The police had issued several members of the Roma community in Geneva with fines, claiming they were breaking the city’s anti-begging laws. The group, represented by Dina Bazarbachi, a lawyer who runs a Roma rights group in Geneva … Continue reading
“Residents of a housing estate in the southern French city of Marseille forced a group of Roma (Gypsy) families that had installed themselves nearby to move on, before burning all that remained of their encampment, local press reported on Thursday. According to La Provence newspaper, police were called to separate dozens of the residents from … Continue reading
“The “anti-crime” march that took place last Saturday in the town of Dřevnovice in Prostějov district with the participation of right-wing extremists has raised tensions between some people in the majority society and some in the Romani community in the nearby town of Dobromilice, where a similar event is rumored to be in the works … Continue reading
Letter from prison, by a roma male imprisoned during the race riots in Aitoliko In early August 2012, Greek residents of the town of Aitoliko (or Aetolico) clashed with some Roma residents of the area. In his letter below, Vasileios Mpekos, a roma male arrested during the events, gives his view of what happened. “The … Continue reading
