France to shut illegal Roma camps and deport migrants

BBC ^ | July 29th 2020 | Staff

[Cardhu]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered 300 illegal camps of travellers and Roma to be dismantled.

People in the camps found to be living illegally in France would be expelled, he said.

The order is a response to riots last week in which travellers attacked police in a Loire Valley town after a youth was shot dead.

The government said the camps are sources of crime but critics say an ethnic minority is being singled out.

"Within the next three months, half of the illegal camps will be dismantled - camps and squats - that is to say some 300," said Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux after a special government meeting.

A statement issued by the president's office after the meeting described the illegal camps as "sources of illegal trafficking, of profoundly shocking living standards, of exploitation of children for begging, of prostitution and crime".

'Severely punished'

The meeting was called to discuss the riot in the small Loire Valley town of Saint Aignan, where dozens of travellers armed with hatchets and iron bars attacked the police station, hacked down trees and burned cars.

The riot erupted after a gendarme shot and killed a traveller who had driven through a checkpoint, officials said.

[GraceG]

ROMA Bad, ROP’ers GOOD. Well according to France anyways.

[Peter Libra]

To clarify my posts on the subject of Roma, in the UK meticulous records have been kept over the years of each and every resident.

Over 90,000 or so called "Travellers," (a euphemism for "Gipsy,") that have been claimed,by their defenders, is in question. Records show that only about 5000 to 7000 can trace back to the "Romany" origin. Yet all of the politically correct treatments can be claimed by many non-gypsies. Free space to camp, free medical, monies for the "rights" of the indigent and so on.

What a carry on!

[Albion Wilde]

There is a description of Gypsies in the novel “Quinten Durward” by Sir Walter Scott. Although written nearly 200 years ago it is just about exactly what we think today. He says btw that they may have originated in Egypt which is where the name comes from.

Very interesting!

In human terms, it does seem a somewhat universal response that grows out of poor conditions in various locations at one time or another, and then the travelling culture becomes entrenched for a small subset of the people. The Irish travellers, for instance, may have come out of the potato famine. Then there are the desert nomads. American Indians once roamed the plains instead of farming. America has overall been so rich (so far) that its camps of trailer residents are relatively upscale; but the Administration is doing all it can to make sure we all race for the bottom....

[Albion Wilde]

Civilization as we know it, being bedeviled by those who seem to be able to dodge the demanding ways of gainful employment.... the more these kind of people are tolerated, the more they become arrogant.

Is that ever true! We see it all around. I tremble for this country, which may soon have its own bands of roaming thieves and thugs.

[Albion Wilde]

ROMA Bad, ROP’ers GOOD. Well according to France anyways.

LOL! But in UK, it is regarded as "racist" to object to encampments of gypsies or travellers springing up on the local high school soccer field and trashing it beyond recognition.