Publication Date:
Thu, 2010-09-09 23:32
France has stepped up its long-standing policy of rounding up Eastern European Gypsies, or Roma, and sending them home. Officials have dismantled more than 100 illegal camps and expelled hundreds of Roma, mostly to Romania and Bulgaria.
The policy has drawn criticism from the UN and the Roman Catholic Church. Many at the EU parliament accused Paris of targeting Roma as a group, ignoring essential European human rights guarantees.
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