FRANCE: Socialist leader accused of hypocrisy over Roma expulsions

French Socialist leader Martine Aubry, a vocal critic of the government’s policy of closing traveller camps and “repatriating”, non-French inhabitants, faces accusations of hypocrisy after ordering camps closed in Lille, where she is mayor. Read More

FRANCE: Roma, Gypsies block highway to protest immigrant crackdown

Members of France’s Roma, Gypsy and other traveller minorities blocked a major highway outside of Bordeaux on Sunday in their first counter-protest to a new crackdown on immigrant camps launched by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Read More