Bulgarian, Romanian Roma Stir New Conflict in Norway

Some 200 Southeastern European migrants, mostly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma, have been involved in another conflict in Norway, as they settled in a privately owned gravel pit in Oslo, according to Norwegian media.

This time the conflict involves the owners of the gravel pit and residents of an adjacent residential neighbourhood, Views and News from Norway says.

The migrants were ordered to leave the grounds around Sofienberg Church in Oslo where they had settled last week.

After months of camping out under bridges and in city parks, and repeatedly violating city sanitation laws in doing so, the migrants banded together and set up camp outside the church in Oslo's trendy Gr?nerl?kka neighborhood to seek refuge from what they claimed was police harassment.

However, Oslo politicians have called the claims of harassment "unreasonable."

The unwelcome settlers left the church grounds on Saturday after one of the two owners of a large undeveloped lot at ?rvoll, north of downtown, offered the use of the property for a new camp.

By Sunday groups of migrant Roma folk had set up tents, constructed makeshift shelters and driven their vehicles into the area, outraging not only neighbouring residents but also reportedly setting off a conflict between the two partners in ?rvoll Eiendom who own the property.

One of them, Albert H?hre, told newspaper Aftenposten that he had no idea the other, Vanessa Quintavalle, had invited the migrants to move in, and he was objecting almost as loudly as the neighbours. He said the property, with no toilets or running water, was unfit for human habitation and could be dangerous

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