Posted on 09/28/2012 11:52:49 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Residents of a housing estate in the southern French city of Marseille forced a group of Roma (Gypsy) families that had installed themselves nearby to move on, before burning all that remained of their encampment, local press reported on Thursday.
According to La Provence newspaper, police were called to separate dozens of the residents from the Roma families, who left the site in Marseille’s 15th arrondissement (district) “without violence”, police said.
Everything that was left behind was gathered up and burned. Police said no arrests were made and that there had been no violence.
The locals, according to La Provence, had forewarned the authorities that they would be taking action against the estimated 35 Roma who had installed themselves there a few days before.
Samia Ghali, who is mayor of the city’s northern 15th and 16th arrondissements, told AFP a delegation had gone to see her on Thursday morning, complaining of burglaries and that the Roma “had tried to enter buildings and made everything dirty”.
The direct action by locals in Marseille comes as France’s newly-elected Socialist government is under fire for continuing the much-criticised policy of former rightwing President Nicolas Sarkozy of dismantling Gypsy camps and “repatriating” Roma travellers to Romania and Bulgaria.
An estimated 15,000 ethnic Roma, mostly originating from Bulgaria and Romania, currently live in makeshift camps across France.
The government moved last month to appease critics of its policy by announcing that it would ease restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian migrants' access to the jobs market.
But it said the dismantling of camps would continue, despite calls from some ministers and human rights groups for them to be stopped unless alternative accommodation was arranged first.
Well, there was a time when their visits were highly welcome and there was less of a downside. Good metalworkers. Of course, nowadays people just throw their broken and dulled stuff away...
Some of that renown European tolerance Obama wants for the USA.
Yes they will steal most anything but they do murder and kill. The Roma are very tribal and have codes of contact within the clan but regarding non-Roma anything goes. The Tene Bimbo clan killed at least 8 elderly people in San Francisco between 1984 to 1993. Its known as the Foxglove murders. To claim Roma do not murder and kill is an urban myth probably perpetuated by the Roma themselves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/oct/17/theobserver2
From the story, I surmise that the residents who disbursed the Roma and burnt their camp must have been North African.
From the story, I surmise that the residents who disbursed the Roma and burnt their camp must have been North African.
You are correct.
I believe they are known as the Travelers here in the US. Mostly scam artists.
true story..i always carry an empty wallet in my back pocket while travelling abroad, I got surounded by a pack of gypsy kids in Florence and they got my wallet and vanished, about a minute later a kid comes running out and throws my wallet at me shouting “bastardo” and takes off
The Roma in France are rag-tag, poor and pathetic. In Great Britain they have become masters of scamming the system and the welfare system and have become skilled at setting up encampments that are very hard to dislodge. They set them up in Gov’t green zones. Neutral parkland. The ones in Britain are motorized with trucks, campers, trailers etc
H/T Army Air Corps
The Gypsies, now known as “ les Roms” in PC land have been a plague on Europe for hundreds of years. Also known as “ traveling people” they are rootless, living kn caravans, setting up their camps, then moving on.
They plague the economies of European cities by not working, and being on the public dole. They train their children, often as young as three, to steal, and work in teams to distract unwitting victims. They are always under the age of arrest, and are caught and let go.
They are “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” They do not respect local laws, and are violent trouble makers.
I have no idea what religion they are. Having come from India originally, and dabbling in fortune telling and other forms if separating a man from his money, my guess would be pagan.
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Yes, a young girl/woman, 13 or so, tried to unzip my husband’s pack, right on the front side of his body. He grabbed her wrist and told her NO, and she got off the Metro. In Paris, that is.
The Gypsies will also drug their babies, toss them at tourists, and then, when you catch them and your hands are full, they’ll pick your pockets. Catching a baby is innate - tossing, not so much.
My mom was a Social Worker here in Los Angeles. The Gypsy families would come in when they were in town, activate their welfare cases, and collect. They were not poor, just knew how to work the system.
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