Robert and Mirela, the ordinary life of Roma beggars. (Daily Life 2016, by Yves Leresche) - Swiss Press Award
![Police check, Robert and Mirela and other Roma will be fined for "sleeping outside," fines of up to 250 francs. Lausanne, winter 2014](https://swiss-press-award.storage.googleapis.com/submissions/2015/9443/25733-9443-fc08e8-8c689b90-3532df-tiny.webp "Police check, Robert and Mirela and other Roma will be fined for "sleeping outside," fines of up to 250 francs. Lausanne, winter 2014")
Yves Leresche
Police check, Robert and Mirela and other Roma will be fined for "sleeping outside," fines of up to 250 francs. Lausanne, winter 2014
L'Hebdo
Photo / Daily Life
2016
Yves Leresche
Robert and Mirela have been begging in Lausanne since 2010. As soon as they have a little money, they send it to their children by money transfer. They stay for two to six months, interspersed with brief trips to Romania to see their families. They travel by bus between Lausanne and Romania. They sleep outside to save the five francs it would cost them to stay overnight in a shelter.
