The Most Dangerous Slum in Romania 🇷🇴 - A Solo Walkthrough Ferentari, Bucharest - Into The Hood

[Scarface F]

It's definitely gyppo neighborhood. Btw I don't see such disgusting hoods here, never seen any, now it's impossible, but even in 90s didn't see such dirty and decayed ones.

Well in Balkans they are not hard to find. Or in Napoli

Gypsies in my country btw don't live in such hoods/buildings. They live in shantytowns/favella looking settlements.

[Victor]

Well in Balkans they are not hard to find. Or in Napoli

Gypsies in my country btw don't live in such hoods/buildings. They live in shantytowns/favella looking settlements.

It's the same in Serbia like in Croatia. But in Bulgaria and Romania they infest the commie block housing hoods.

[catgeorge]

A little background on the youtuber because he is famous in Australia.

- He is half Spanish and half Lebanese.
- He is a talented rapper that sold many copies here and very popular.
- His style pre 2007 was extremely gangster
- He has been off heroin since 2007 and is now very much Christian
- He hasn;t touched drugs since 2007 and been marriesd since
- He is 38 years old where he spent the ages between 13-22 in jail on and off for drug offences and gangster type stuff.

A subhuman that had an epiphany thats been finally normalised.

[Cybele]

Some info I found, about the place:

Before Communism


-The name of the Ferentari neighborhood comes from the Latin “ferentarius”, a type of soldier in the Roman army (a member of a sort of light troop, who fought with missile weapons). There are different hypothesis why this place ended with that name.

-Some 150 years ago, it was the outskirts of Bucharest – with no houses, only vineyards. But when the Filaret Station (the first station of the city) was built, factories and, later, poor houses of the workers appeared around

-100 years ago, the area, was not known as Ferentari but as Câmpul lui Bachus (Field of Bachus) it it was a a fairly sprawling slum (mahala)

-During interwar time, it became a working-class neighborhood and an important point of Bucharest trade unionism.
Some say this is the place where the Ceaușescu couple would have met for the first time. It also had a reputation that criminals use it as a hide-out.

During Communism

-Soon after WWII, it was one of the first places where the new regime decided to launch construction projects. in 1946, and over several years they built 600 apartments. The project was a pilot, they still didn't have a clear idea of what socialist Bucharest would look like. The style was similar more with functionalism from the '30s-'40s." Tribute to this style, the red blocks were built, so named in 1950 because of the polystyrene used by the authorities to renovate them. Even so, the newly built Ferentari Worker's Quarter was at that time one of the most modern in the Capital. "The apartments were reserved for important members and ex-illegals of the Communist Party, and the neighborhood was presented to visiting foreign delegations as a great achievement." It's bizarre when you think that at that time Ferentari was one of the sought-after areas of the Capital”.

-After Ceaușescu came to power, the expansion period began - the goal was to build as many blocks as possible. In just a few years, until 1973, 165 four-story blocks were built, bringing several thousand new residents to the quarry. Unlike the red brick ones, the blocks were now built from prefabricated materials, which significantly accelerated the pace of completion.

-After years of preparation and documentation, they came up with a detailed urban plan in which they would create a new mammoth block of flats. The plan stipulated that it would stretch from Rahova to Berceni and gather over 250,000 inhabitants, with schools, kindergartens, shops and everything else needed. Name of the neighborhood: Ferentari. They also intended to build a light metro line that would go in the direction of Militari – Rahova – Ferentari – Berceni, and add a large park at the end. Only a small part of these plans were fulfilled until the revolution of '89.

Ferentari in 1956


The red blocks


After 1989

The image of Ferentari changed after 1989
- Many of the blocks on Aleea Livezilor - the most sordid ghetto in Ferentari - were, during the communist era, dormitories for non-familists, built for workers brought from the province to work in the factories in Bucharest. After 1989 - as the managed economy collapsed and factories disappeared - many workers left. And the dormitories remained, for a short time, empty.
Then, little by little, the studios and 2-room comfort 3 apartments were occupied. They were sold and resold, although the legality of many transactions may be questionable.
In a collective volume entitled "Ferentari hidden communities", it is mentioned that - when asked - only 40% of the ghetto residents said that they moved there between 1990 - 2000. The others claim that they came in the next decade or even later, after the year 2010. The oldest residents claim that, until 1994, there were no drugs in the ghetto. They appeared later. And then came the garbage.

Some of the residents of the ghetto told the authors of the volume "Hidden Communities Ferentari" that the mess on Livezilor Alley is knowingly maintained by traffickers and drug users, in order to create an unfrequented area for the rest of the population.

Here’s the video of a Romanian vlogger who went to Ferentari, and filmed first on Aleea Livezilor, (from minute 03:32 till min 10:20). Unfortunately, there is no English translation. But he talks about poverty and dirtiness (trash thrown directly out of the window, rats, used needles), which he hasn’t seen in other slums or favelas around the world. Now of course, no matter how poor a person is, some level of cleanness can be maintained, instead of throwing the garbage out of the window, because of laziness.
50 meters apart from those blocks of flats on Aleea Livezilor, the neighborhood looks more normal. Well, still bad looking overall, building’s facades are unkept but it’s a lot cleaner with some flowers in front of the block of flats instead of trash and a small park. So, the opinions are divided.
The worst parts of the neighborhood has a big proportion of drug addicts, alcoholics and prostitutes and ethnic Gypsies. There are many who don’t own property with papers, they simply stay in there and create a big mess. They have problems but they also seem not to put much effort into resolving them.
He was not physically attacked by anyone in Ferentari, in the worst areas some individuals cursed and shouted at him not to film them. So, he concludes that is not the most dangerous compared to other slums he has seen, but it’s the dirtiest.

[Cybele]

And Spanian (the Youtuber) advertised it as the most dangerous hood in Romania.... but it's actually not. It's ranking on the 14th place actually.
The most dangerous neighborhood is considered to be Ițcani in Suceava county, and yes, it's less spectacular looking.

[aherne]

You can't take garbage out of that little India. People would feel much alone without it...