Plan de a lua cu forta peste 100 de copii nomazi

Comunicat de presa/Press Release

PLAN SECRET DE A LUA CU FORTA PESTE O SUTA DE COPII NOMAZI/SECRET PLAN TO SEIZE OVER
A HUNDRED GYPSY CHILDREN

Contacte/Contacts:

Gypsy Council
Grattan Puxon 01206 623528
dale.farm@btinternet.com
Essex County Council
Graham.Tombs@Essex.gov.uk
Richard Sheridan, president
07881496464


English:


A whistle-blower has revealed the existence of secret
plans to seize more than a hundred Gypsy children from the
besieged Dale Farm Travellers' community and take them into
temporary care.

If a judge gives the go-ahead, the children will be taken
by force from their parents as part of the biggest anti-Gypsy
operation ever mounted in Britain.

Basildon District Council has set aside five million euro to
bulldoze Dale Farm and drive over a thousand so-called illegal
Gypsies and Travellers from the area. It has already demolished
a dozen Gypsy properties at nearby Hovefields.

According to details obtained by Ustiben, Essex County
Council welfare officers would enter Dale Farm village in a fleet
of coaches and mini-buses, accompanied by bailiffs and
police, some in riot gear.

The media will be told the removal of infants and youngsters,
among them some seventy primary-school children, along with
the elderly and vulnerable, is for their own safety.They will be detained
at a holding centre some miles from Dale Farm.

Officials anticipate that within hours frantic parents will
call to demand their children back. According to instructions, they
are to be released providing families agree immediately to leave
the county under polic escort.

Heavy vehicles, including JCBs, earth-movers and lowloaders
will be employed for at least a week raising the village. Its five
tarmacked streets, lined by fenced and walled yards, comprise
132 chalets, mobile-homes and caravans, as well as the new Saint
Christopher's community centre and chapel.

Saint Christopher's is named after a school built by Travellers in
Ireland 45 years ago and burned down by Dublin Corporation.
It's the headquarters of the Dale Farm Chaveys Youth Club, formed
this summer with the help of the Essex Racial Equality Council.

The Gypsy Council is meeting in the centre on Tuesday (9 Sept)
to discuss the threat. It has asked for and obtained a confrontation
with top Essex officials at County Hall, Chelmsford, which is expected
to take place later in the week.

Gypsy Council president Richard Sheridan, chair of the Dale
Farm Housing Association, views the county council plan as an
abuse of welfare legislation.

"This is county council collusion with Basildon's policy
of ethnic-cleansing," commented Sheridan, who is attending
the Roma Summit in Brussels later this month. "They want
to crush our homes and take away our children."

Gypsy Council secretary Joseph G.Jones,
recently appointed a technical expert to the UN Advisory
Committee on Forced Evictions, has submitted a report on
the situation for the UN body, which met last week in
Nairobi.

The issue as to whether Basildon can destroy Dale
Farm, located in a greenbelt zone and lacking planning
consent, without alternative accommodation being
provided for the 90 families, is to be decided in the
Court of Appeal on 5 December.


Română:

Un informator a scos la iveala existenta unui plan secret de a lua cu forta mai bine de o suta de copii nomazi din comunitatea Dale Farm si de a-i tine in custodie temporara.

Daca judecatorul da verdict pozitiv, copii vor fi separati cu forta de parintii lor, ca parte din cea mai mare operatiune anti-nomazi petrecuta vreodata in Anglia.

Consiliul Districtual Basildon a alocat cinci milioane de euro pentru a demola Dale Farm si pentru a alunga peste o mie de nomazi cu asa-numit statut ilegal. In apropiere, la Hovefields, a fost deja demolata o duzina de proprietati ale nomazilor.

Dupa detaliile obtinute de la Ustiben, ofiterii sociali ai Consiliului Comitatului Essex urmeaza sa intre cu un convoi de automobile si minibusuri in satul Dale Farm, insotiti de executori si politisti, unii in costum de interventii.

Presei i se va spune ca indepartarea copiilor se face spre binele lor, printre ei in jur de saptezeci de elevi de scoala primara, impreuna cu cei batrini si cei vulnerabili. Acestia vor fi detinuti la un centru de plasament la citeva mile distanta de Dale Farm.

Oficialitatile anticipeaza ca in citeva ore parintii vor cauta sa-si ia copii inapoi. In acord cu instructiunile primite, copii vor fi eliberati in cazul in care familiile vor accepta imediat sa paraseasca comitatul sub escorta politiei.

Masini grele, buldozere si trailere vor lucra cel putin o saptamina pentru a rade satul de pe fata pamintului. Cele cinci strazi asfaltate ale sale, marginite de curti imprejmuite cu garduri si ziduri, leaga 132 de cabane, case mobile si rulote, precum si capela si centrul comunitar Saint Christopher.

Numele de Saint Christopher vine de la scoala construita de nomazi in Irlanda cu 45 de ani in urma, arsa apoi de catre Dublin Corporation. Aici se afla cartierul general al Clubului Chavilor din Dale Farm, fondat in aceasta vara cu sprijinul Consilului pentru Egalitate Sociala din Essex.

Consiliul Nomazilor se intilneste in acest centru pe 9 septembrie pentru a discuta despre amenintare. S-a cerut si s-a obtinut o confruntare cu oficialitatile de rang inalt ale comitatului, la Chelmsford, intilnire care va avea loc peste citeva zile.

Presedintele Consiliului Nomazilor, Richard Sheridan, totodata administrator al Asociatiei Locatarilor din Dale Farm, considera planul consilului comitatutului drept un abuz al legislatiei sociale.

"E vorba de o complicitate a consiliului comitatului la politica de curatire etnica a celor din Basildon", a comentat Sheridan, care va participa in aceasta luna la Summitul pe problemele romilor de la Bruxelles. "Vor sa ne distruga casele si sa ne ia copiii".

Secretarul Consiliului Nomazilor, Joseph G. Jones, recent numit expert tehnic al Comitetului Consultativ al ONU pentru Evacuari Fortate, a remis un raport acestei institutii, pentru intilnirea care a avut loc cu o saptamina in urma la Nairobi.

Chestiunea daca cei din Basildon pot sau nu sa distruga Dale Farm, localizata pe o zona verde, fara consimtamint de planificare, in lipsa asigurarii unei cazari alternative pentru 90 de familii, va fi decisa de Curtea de Apel pe 5 decembrie.