How gypsy barons live (35 photos)

Many of us meet gypsies only in the form of inconspicuously dressed fortune tellers, trying to extract some money from passers-by. However, these people live completely differently, and often separately from other people. They make a lot of money and that's a fact. Fixed capital is concentrated in the hands of barons who invest in real estate. Of course, for your loved ones.

We will not go into details of the source of their income, but look at photos of gypsy life.

This is the “king” of Romania himself, Florian Cioaba. In the early 2000s, he found himself at the center of a European scandal when a court forbade him to marry his 12-year-old daughter to a 15-year-old groom. Cioaba bombarded even the Strasbourg court with angry demands, but it remained adamant: the daughter must wait until her 16th birthday. Last year, Romanian authorities allowed Florian Cioaba to establish a local Roma court, where the administrative cases of his subjects would be heard according to his “laws.”

Florian Cioba is not awake

These are the houses of millionaire gypsies in the vicinity of the Romanian cities of Timisoara and Buzescu (photographer Nigel Dickinson)

Typical representatives of the gypsy “elite” of Eastern Europe (with gold from their bodies it was possible to feed hundreds of ordinary gypsies for a year)

At the funeral of the gypsy “elite,” it is customary to place in the grave along with the deceased some useful things that may be useful to him in the afterlife. For example, as the gypsy “baron” of Moldova Cherari himself admitted, they even put a Volga car in his father’s grave.

Funeral of the gypsy nobility

More representatives of the gypsy “elite”