Roma Shanty Town Springs Up in London’s Biggest Park

Sven Longshanks
Daily Stormer
October 3, 2014

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Come and take a tour of Romatown.

Welcome to Romatown. Its like Chinatown, only its full of thieving gypsies living among garbage and ‘seeking a better life in Britain.’

They were all at work thieving and pick-pocketing when the journalist took a guided tour of the establishment, but his guide did at least show him their main facilities, a canal for bathing and some woods for pooping in.

Daily Mail:

With shacks assembled crudely from discarded pallets, wooden doors and plastic sheets, it resembles a shanty town.

But rather than Rio or Soweto, this ramshackle encampment is tucked between the trees just yards from joggers and dog-walkers in greater London’s biggest park.

Some 40 economic migrants now live in what is simply known as ‘The Camp’ – a base for Eastern Europeans seeking a better life in Britain.

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Expert builders live there, capable of building entire houses from scratch like this one.

The settlement, in north London’s Lee Valley Regional Park, lies in a leafy glade between a canal towpath and the busy North Circular Road.

It is already at the centre of a row as many residents in nearby Edmonton view the shacks as a ‘filthy slum’ where migrants cook on open fires, wash in the canal and use the woods as a toilet.

Yesterday the Daily Mail was invited to tour the site by 30-year-old Roma gipsy Marian Dumitrache, who revealed how up to six migrants sleep in a room on bare mattresses and sit outside among makeshift tables, armchairs and abandoned shopping trolleys.

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Landscape gardener looking for work.

Mr Dumitrache left his native Romania six months ago to work in London – sending money home to his wife and two young children in the city of Buzau. Wearing a Superman sweatshirt, he took a break from his house decorating job in nearby Chingford to claim he has ‘no choice’ but to live in the camp.

‘No one likes the Roma gipsy. Living here is cold and uncomfortable but at least I can earn money painting and send that home.

‘But we are not living off other people or the state. The camp is deserted today because people are at work.’

He added: ‘We cook on camp fires and some people use the canal to wash. We are not really living here – we just about exist. It is very cold at night. We have no gas or electricity.’

Mr Dumitrache confirmed that Transport for London – which owns the land – had issued eviction papers and the police have served Asbos on individuals.

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“We use the canal for washing in and the woods for pooping in”

High Court documents also refer to the discovery of stolen car number plates and beer kegs on the site in recent months and of the health and safety concerns involving some 40 men living in the newly-erected suburban shanty town.

The Eastern Europeans in the camp come from Romania, Bulgaria and Poland. Mr Dumitrache entered Britain six months ago by car after showing his Romanian identity card to border officials.

Police have spent the past few weeks regularly visiting the site asking the men to move.

But the camp remains, and locals are angry that more has not been done to move them on. One said: ‘It’s a joke, nobody wants to live near a filthy slum.’

River Lea Anglers’ Club secretary John Weighell added: ‘It stinks to high heaven and you can see garbage hanging in the trees and bushes. It looks like a shanty town in Soweto or Rio. They are destroying the wildlife, intimidating the public and causing a nuisance.’

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I’m sure the council will soon move them on to a luxury hotel somewhere.