France’s Roma defeat crackdown

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Series Details 27.7.11
Publication Date 27/07/2011
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President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attempts to force thousands of Roma migrants to leave France since 2010 has done nothing to cut their numbers, a new report from French charity Médecins du Monde shows, prompting a fresh wave of criticism against a policy that has been compared with the treatment of Jews during the second world war.

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ESO: Background information: France avoids EU discipline over Roma http://www.europeansources.info/record/france-avoids-eu-discipline-over-roma/

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