Do you think that France has turned a racist country after the deportation of Gypsies to Romania and stenosis?
Immigration laws and pressure on Muslims and their traditions and the distinction between blacks and whites and the problem of the suburbs and the deportation of the Roma and criticized the Church for Sarkozy’s policy? Is France an outbreak now?
FRANCE: Roma groups threaten to take France to EU court over forced deportations
Roma groups threatened Saturday to take France to the European Court of Justice for the forced deportation of hundreds of Roma and called on European leaders “to put the French president in his place” following EU criticism of the expulsions. Read More
FRANCE: Govt minister uses crime stats to justify Roma deportation
In response to the growing storm of condemnation over the deportation of Roma from France, interior minister Brice Hortefeux stated on Wednesday that crime perpetrated by Roma has skyrocketed over the past year. Read More
FRANCE: Romanian officials in Paris to discuss deportation of Roma
Romanian officials meet with French ministers in Paris on Wednesday to mend strained diplomatic relations following a drive by France’s government to expel hundreds of Roma and Gypsies to Romania. Read More
FRANCE: EU monitoring France’s deportation of Roma ‘very closely’
The EU Rights and Justice Commission has said it will closely monitor the deportation of hundreds of Roma people from France to Romania and Bulgaria, while Romanian officials will visit Paris to discuss the issue with the foreign ministry. Read More
FRANCE: First deportation of illegal Roma to happen Thursday, says French minister
Nearly 70 Roma expelled from their camp site are being lodged in a gymnasium in a suburb of Paris. Associations are pushing for reinsertion programs, and twenty families have found shelter. France24.com takes a look at the situation on the ground. Read More
FRANCE: France to deport Iranian ex-PM’s assassin after academic freed
France has signed a deportation order Monday for Ali Vakili Rad, an Iranian agent convicted of the 1991 killing of former Iranian PM Shapour Bakhtiar in a Parisian suburb, according to a French Interior Ministry official. Read More