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Gypsy and Traveller Equality
Part Two 30th September 2016
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Gypsy women drove ambulances and worked in factories
Here to stay
Estimated 1% of the population in Leicestershire are from the Gypsy / Traveller Community
The Nazis embarked
murdering an estimated 500,000 Roma Gypsies Gypsy men fought in both World War I and 2
Unauthorised development–
Sites without planning permission
Road side Fields or Parks
Permanent Residential:
Emergency stopping place
Transit or Short Stay
6 Social sites
15 year old Gypsy boy was kicked to Death in 2003. Witnesses' heard the youths shouting “He is only a GYPO”
Recent Graffiti at Red hill Roundabout March 2015
Gypsy and Travellers have as many preconceptions about the settled community as the settled community do have about the Gypsy and Travellers Without a legal stopping place Gypsy people negotiate a complex legislative world, which is regulated through the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act and for ever changing Planning Laws
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