Sarkozy under fire for taking aim at Roma

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Series Details 29.7.10
Publication Date 29/07/2010
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France's Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux announced on the 28 July 2010 that half the country's illegal 'travelling people' or 'itinerant population' and Roma camps would be dismantled within three months, and that any caught breaking the law would be deported.

Separtely, French politicians as well as advocates for immigrants and housing rights reacted strongly to a video shot on 21 July 2010 of police forcibly removing women and children of African descent from a makeshift tent housing camp in a poor Paris suburb.

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