France has been placed in lockdown since March 17 in a bid to slow the spread of Covid-19. But the cramped and squalid conditions in the country's hundreds of slums, where many of France's Roma population live, make social distancing and good hygiene nearly impossible. Aid agencies are now warning of a potential health disaster.

In a shanty town in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris, nearly half of the approximately 200 inhabitants have gone, choosing to move elsewhere when the pandemic began to take hold in France.

But those who remain face limited access to basic utilities, such as running water and healthcare.

“We are facing a double health crisis in the slums because when coronavirus arrives people will have big problems getting access to healthcare, and also they lack the basics like access to water, to toilets, in many of the shanty towns, it's very tough for them,” Adeline Grippon of Médecins du Monde, one of the aid agencies working in the slum.

Link: https://www.france24.com/en/20200416-no-money-no-water-no-food-covid-19-lockdown-in-a-paris-roma-slum?fbclid=IwAR0YTpMJSYQ4jtgF0iovH7xzPSQBtOkFYZz1dEXKz-4N8l8d1LUdU2uKflM

The regime's fascist neranimajiks, known as the "Leviathan", were once again active in public a few days after the cowardly and prolonged attack on the Garip family in Belgrade.

In fact, this violent group, without any reason or evidence, accused the family of organizing dog fights and animal cruelty, and decided to take away a dog on national grounds by intimidation and threats.

That the intimidation was racially justified was proved by the fact that their racial dog was taken away while the scrub was left on. If the cause was the terror of the animals, they would take both dogs.

Two years ago, the Garip family was the target of executors who were evicted from their home in Belgrade's Dorchol neighborhood to build luxury apartments and office space.

They were placed in containers without electricity and water, in completely unhygienic conditions. They are also threatened with eviction because of the space planned for the construction of luxury apartments and office space.

Link: https://www.crvenakritika.org/blog/603-rezimski-batinasi-u-napadu-na-rome?fbclid=IwAR0986hl421LmXQi5ZjTCjzvY0m_lnIjJQ21FbgDnv_LAr22XvFWwqgvULQ