French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.
Sarkozy called a government meeting Wednesday after Gypsies clashed with police this month following the shooting death of a youth fleeing officers in the Loire Valley.
Sarkozy said those responsible for the clashes would be “severely punished” and ordered the government to expel all illegal Roma immigrants, almost all of whom have come from eastern Europe.
He pushed for a change in France’s immigration law to make such expulsion easier “for reasons of public order.” He said illegal Gypsy camps “will be systematically evacuated,” calling them sources of trafficking, exploitation of children and prostitution.
The language has chilling undertones in a country where authorities rounded up Gypsies and sent them to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation in World War II. Former President Jacques Chirac, the first French leader to acknowledge the state’s role in the Holocaust, condemned “the Nazi madness that wanted to eliminate the Gypsies.”
Around Europe, some 250,000 to 1.5 million Roma were killed during World War II. Accurate figures are difficult to find, because so many Roma were rounded up away from public view, executed and dumped into mass graves.
French Roma representatives were not invited to Wednesday’s presidential meeting, and said they are the only ethnic group that French authorities can openly target.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux insisted that Wednesday’s measures “are not meant to stigmatize any community, regardless of who they are, but at to punish illegal behavior.”
Romania and Bulgaria are members of the European Union, and their citizens can enter France without a visa, but they must get work permits to work here or residency permits to settle long term.
Community leaders contend the very principle of the meeting, which singled out an ethnic group in a country that is officially blind to ethnic origins — is racist and warn of grave consequences if their side isn’t heard. France’s government does not count how many of its citizens are of a certain ethnicity; everyone is simply considered French.
“Today … I am afraid we’re preparing to open a blighted page in the history of France, which could sadly lead to acts of reprisal in the days ahead,” said lawyer Henri Braun said at a Wednesday news conference by French Roma leaders. “There is a huge problem of racism in France towards this population, there is enormous discrimination.”
France’s relationship with what it calls Gypsies is complex and complicated by divisions among the disparate populations.
One, formally given the administrative label of “traveling folk,” includes several hundred thousand French citizens who have lived in France for centuries, and were traditionally nomadic but have become increasingly sedentary in recent years.
The other main Gypsy population is made up of recent immigrants who come mostly from Eastern European countries like Romania and Bulgaria, usually illegally, and are often seen begging on the streets of French cities.
Those in the more established communities say they are being unfairly lumped together with illegal new immigrants. Sarkozy’s orders Wednesday targeted Roma, though the violence in Saint-Aignan earlier this month was in a community of traveling folk established in the region for years.
Alice Januel, whose organization represents Catholics among French Gypsies, warned that “If Mr. Sarkozy thinks that by clamping down he is going to calm the youth, I don’t think that he will succeed. We have a youth that is rebellious.”
Sarkozy also proposed that France bring in about 20 Romanian and Bulgarian police to work in the Paris region and send French police to Romania and Bulgaria, to help fight trafficking and other crime by Roma.
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I agree with the ones that state “Kill all Gypsies!”
Or send them back to India, Wherever they came from.
Europe would be glad to get rid of them.
There is a place for jews in Almighty God´s plan. That is why others hate so much jews, because they hate God. The devil wants to destroy the jews because it is against the good plan of Almighty God. God is winner. God is powerful, and his name is Jesus.
The world is filling up with more and more wicked minds everyday. Every action as equal reaction. Europeans conquered others peaceful world and stirred up their normal life and in many instances cleansed the ethnic population. There was no large scale immigration happening before colonization. Everyone were happy and prosperous in their own land. Only after the greed for wealth and looting by colonial empires started, immigration trailed behind them. Second, I can understand Europeans crying about Islamization, for them they have to check their respective governments foreign policies towards the middle-east, African and Asian countries. Take a look and start with the case like “Farmers suicide in India and role of MNCs/IMF/World Bank” ! God Bless mankind and his sins!
Good job Sarkozy,We(white Europe) should reunite and burn alive all the illegal imigrants niggers and ugly north affrican dogs.We should get back the witch hunting with the differance that this time it will be nigger hunting
Totally agree with Sarkozi, he is a brave man!
Here in Toronto,those exported gypsies from Hungary in 2010 already causing too many problems. And they are on of the reasons of my writing here.
They asses should be kicked somewhere really far, like moon.
Why they are so egoistic (for example keep playing loud music at night despite anything)
Up to me, if person or people can’t live with other people in harmony, should be sent back or killed by aboriginals :-D
R CROSS.I agree with you.don’t be surprised,I am an American black man.Ever since Lara Logan got gang raped in Egypt I have been searching the internet about the Muslim gang raping in Scandinavian countries.I see that the Muslims in Malmo,Sweden gave the Jews a hard time and now there are very few Jews if any.I would like to see the Europeans and Australia and New Zealand get rid of all Muslims one way or another.I would like to see white militant men and women kill Muslim rapist and other Muslim criminals that in their prisons and tell the rest of the Muslims to go home or face aryan nation death squads.Death by any means!The only blacks that should be in European nations would be American black tourists or government employees of U.S.A..Sounds very unusual coming from a black man.Lets say that I appreciate living in a white anglo-Saxon former British colony and I sincerely sympathize with you right-wing conservative white Europeans that want to make your homelands all white for all times.
We the indigenous peoples of europe are well and truly sickened by this endless invasion of wogs and niggers,whos presence does not benefit them one iota,in fact it does serious damage to thier futures,and that of thier children.Our economies will run perfectly well without them,in fact if industry was so desperate for workers,logically we should see an increase in our wages,instead of the exact reverse,mass unemployment.These illiterate dregs have not come to give,they come to take,as much as they can fill thier grubby hands with,and this is amplified in regard to muslims,who come to dominate and order our countries to suit themselves,and this we must resist to thier last breath,for peacefull co-existence with us is not on thier agenda.
It shall be known as the homeland of the Neo-Nazi.
We Gipsies,know who the enemy is.
We shall replace these Yids with our own kind and then boot them back to The Pale.
I’m afraid you assholes underestimate.
after closer look of what you are doing and what you are as people, you have two more enemies.
See you in hell!
Sarkozy has an election coming up, doesn’t he? Afterward, it will be business as usuall, this is nothing more than a symbolic gesture to the French that he “understands their pain”. He doesn’t. Don’t think for a second that he’ll stop playing along with the EU and move toward dismantling France of its pesky French people, just as all European countries are in the process of destroying their native people, read “racist” people.
Democracy as government is good, democracy as a religion is genocide.
I want to surport surcosy)))) bravo
I also want Sarkozy’s measures in Spain! We have enough with Spanish gypsies who have free housing, food, electricity, they’re even paid for sending their kids to school! I’ve travelled around Romania and I’ve seen the Chinese-style palaces of the gypsie mafia, while dirty and skinny children played around. For me, those who reject Sarkozy’s attitude are defending mafia and the exploitation of women and children.
Well… no problem, They will come to Spain, just like when Berlusconi did the same thing. Then can apply for the €428 unemployment help (copped by fellow romanians, dominicans, colombians, moroccans etc) and get the Free health insurance. No problem!
And some english media call us racist for having police at the borderline with Africa.
I for one would never call you racist for that. That’s just the dumb communist/liberals speaking.
You have every right to protect yourselves. Good for you. Please start the Reconquista a.s.a.p. especially with regard to muslims and africans. You don’t want those Barbary Pirates colonizing Europe and enslaving Europe for another 800 years.
If you want immigrants who will help your economy, rather go help those whites from SA who are all being slaugthered by blacks who are being incited by the facebook jihadis.
They’ll make their own jobs and probably create some for Spain too, rather than living off welfare.
Nice words, Mr. Sárközy, but we prefer effective actions.
He bulldozes the camps which is bulit up by gipsys again not farther than 2 kms…
Let’s sweep the gypsys out from Europe!
You are almost there,try harder.
I’m glad that President Sarkozi has finally taken this action of ordering the removal of these sub-animal gypsies.
However, I must remind people that these scums of the earth have nothing to do with being “ROMA. They are just gypsies with no country of affiliation more or less like the Jews.
There is only one ROMA and has been the capital of Italia for centuries.
Now the cleansing must be done to all non-European invaders starting from the Muslims. It must be done not only in France but in all the White Nations.
Some people struggle with forming an orderly queue.
I don’t preach nor promote genocide, I simply disagree with multiculturalism and immigration as a whole really.
why don’t you kill all the gipsys ? we romanians would be gratefull, we have huge problems with them in romania, but the media is corrupt and does not show this, it;s like an international plan to make romania the gipsys country, like they done with the jews in palestine, gipsy are not romanian so do whatever you want with them, romanians will love you for that :D
Romane,
Bravo, asta este ideea, vor sa faca Romania tara tziganilor, iar in Franta nu se mai face nici o diferenta intre tziganii lor francezi si tziganii care vin din Romania.Este revoltator, dar ce putem face daca Romania este stat fara stapani…..
Am scris la Ministerul de externe, la ambasada, la presedentie…..fara nici un rezultat
No. I do not think they should just be killed. That would make us no better than muslims who commit genocide every day simply because the koran tells them to.
Kick them out if they’re illegal. That’s fine. But don’t kill them. That’s like muslims / nazis.
Plus I think the blacks and muslims are a bigger problem. They seriously need to be kicked out.
At least Sarkozy has balls and is putting his foot down. Good for him. Glad to see people are getting fed up.
angryyoungman, I think maybe the Dutch and French are quicker to defend their freedoms, or maybe they’re trendsetters who see the crap coming faster. But the world is at least waking up it seems.
The only reason the Germans are more “tolerant” is because every time they speak up against the horrors of Multiculturalism, they are deemed racist and Nazi’s. Time to get over the past, and allow Deutschland to do what they wish without being scrutinized! Nevertheless, great job France!! Keep it up! First the Burka, now this; great news! :-D
Maybe cattle trucks and gas chambers a being constucted for the purpose.
I sense that the French are getting more and more pissed off about immigration than other Europeans. Why else would their government be cracking down on gypsy and African illegals like they have in the last few months? Although it’s not to the level that was seen in Rosarno, Italy.
You know the world has gone mad when the British and the Germans are more tolerant and accommodating than the Dutch and the French.
I hear the King of the Gypsies remarked his people were more french than those of the hidden dwarf.
Roma vs Pikeys. LULZ.
We all know where they are going to go and it won’t be back to Romania, get ready Dover!!
Little idiot!!!Shut up and try to buy some brain….