Not so fast... we have gypsy's here too.
I met gypsy's reguraly during my childhood and youth (1960's) since they were trekking from town to town and village to village here in Flanders to sell things and repair stuff (the throw-away society was not invented yet)
I loved their horse-pulled colorfull wagons and the feeling of freedom they brought with them, since their same aged as me were not forced in a rigid catholic school.
My parents were openminded and had no objection as we played together and sang with them around the fires when they camped near our town.
As so many western boys I tryed to play guitar in that period (Dylan, Beetles ...coming up) but gave it up when I heard the music of Django Reinhardt, also a gypsy (agreed not a Roma but Sinti).Django played with Duke Ellington, B.B.King and many others and influenced  the modern music till today with his gipsy-style music (ask any good guitar player, they know Django).
There are still Roma , Sinti and other gypsy people around here. The horses and camp-fires disappeared , and they are only allowed to stay on dedicated places with their mobil-homes. Some settled and live in our towns.
We have racists in Flanders, and the idea that gipsy's are not thrustworthy, thieves, living of our social securety......is still wide-spread. But the same things are said of the immigrants of other country's, especially Africans and Arabs.

There are other story's too: political ; Last year there was a high-level diplomatic incident between Bulgaria and Belgium concerning the Roma : dig that story out....very educating...

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)