France starts removing Gypsy camps
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France has begun dismantling illegal Roma (Gypsy) camps following a presidential order for hundreds of such camps to be removed.
On Friday, about 100 people were moved on after police emptied a camp in the central city of Saint-Etienne.
The Roma had been living there in makeshift shelters and tents since May.
It was the first such move since President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a week ago plans to shut 300 illegal camps within the next three months.
Mr Sarkozy also said members of the Roma community who had committed public order offences would be deported immediately.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10892669
On Friday, about 100 people were moved on after police emptied a camp in the central city of Saint-Etienne.
The Roma had been living there in makeshift shelters and tents since May.
It was the first such move since President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a week ago plans to shut 300 illegal camps within the next three months.
Mr Sarkozy also said members of the Roma community who had committed public order offences would be deported immediately.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10892669
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Where did they move them too ? It there a place for them ? A reservation ? Very sad .
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What is most significant about this story, and an earlier story about Israel removing Bedouin camps, is the shift in attitude and action by national governments toward migratory groups within their borders. The Bedouins, who camps the Israeli's destroyed, have occupied that area of Palestine and Egypt for centuries. The Roma presence in Europe predates most of the modern nations there.
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