A year on from Brevik, resentment towards Roma tests Norwegian tolerance

Описание: (21 Jul 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Mid of red tent in forest
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Cristian Tudose, Roma living in Norway:
"In Romania, one month money it's 115 euros one month. It's small. Here, it's money much more"
3. Mid of tent in forest
4. Mid of Tudose opening up his tent, showing where he and his wife live, sleep
5. Close of washing hanging on line
6. Mid of Tudose showing where they prepare food and keep cooking utensils
7. Close of pots and pans
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bjonnulv Evenrud, People are People NGO:
"In this area of the forest just outside Oslo, there lives between 60 and one hundred people from Buzeo area in Romania, mostly. And they are gypsies"
9. Wide, pan left of campsite in forest
10. Mid, slow zoom in of tent
11. Close of food items on table
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bjonnulv Evenrud, People are People NGO:
"The groundworks of the hate that we have seen has been laid for many years by the police and by the public authorities in Norway, and also by media"
13. Pan from green tent to umbrella on the ground
14. Mid of camp site
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Bjonnulv Evenrud, People are People NGO:
"I hope things improve in Romania, but the solution is of course the work. The work, the education, the security that every people will need"
16. Wide, pan of Roma camp at an east Oslo building site
17. Mid of green tent inside camp
18. Wide of Roma sheltering from rain inside camp
19. Wide of camp resident closing main gate
20. Mid, set up shot of Deputy Minister walking into office and sitting at her desk
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Gina Lund, Norwegian Deputy Minister for Labour:
"The Roma population in Norway has no other rights in Norway than other EEA members. Which means that they will have to provide for themselves while being in Norway."
22. Mid of Lund at her desk
23. Close, cutaway of hand on computer mouse
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Gina Lund, Norwegian Deputy Minister for Labour:
"Well, one of the discussions in Norway has been that a lot of them have been begging for money, and begging by law is not illegal, but that does not mean it is considered to be a job. So being able to provide for yourself would normally be difficult by begging, which means that it could be possible for some of them to do that during the three months of their stay, but after the three months, begging will not be an actual way of making a living"
25. Mid of Evenrud talking to Roma people in forest
26. Close of same
27. Mid of Roma people walking past camera, waving
STORYLINE
A year after a deadly bomb blast and shooting rampage in Norway, the country's commitment to face xenophobia with tolerance is being strained by an influx of Roma gypsies from Eastern Europe.
In a forest on the outskirts of Oslo, an estimated 60 to 100 Roma have set up camps in the trees.
Their tents are hidden far from the main road to avoid the prying eyes of passers-by or the Norwegian authorities.
31-year old Cristian Tudose came to Norway from Romania three months ago.
He's set up a camp in the forest for himself, his wife and her brother in two tents.
They've cleared a small space for a fire to cook, a separate place to prepare food and eat, and strung up rope to hang laundry between trees.
His motives for coming were purely financial he says.
"In Romania, one month money it's 115 euros one month. It's small. Here, it's money much more" he explains, in broken English.
The forest camps are deserted during the day.
Camp residents return to the forest in the evening.
The presence of Roma people in an otherwise well-to-do leafy Oslo suburb, has become a flashpoint for anti-Roma criticism.

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