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09/12/2012 - France

France to scrap Roma return payments by year end

France is to scrap payments that aimed to encourage Roma to return to their countries of origin but did nothing to prevent them coming back to France.

25/09/2012 - France

French police bust Roma pickpocket network

French police on Tuesday raided three Roma camps on the outskirts of Paris and detained 10 people for forcing children into pickpocketing on the metro.

17/08/2012 - France

France may end Roma migrant work ban

France may scrap a ban on Bulgarians and Romanians working in an effort to defuse a row over the dismantling of camps by Roma from the two countries.

09/09/2011 - France

Man acquitted after three years in jail awaiting trial

A French court has acquitted a man after he was kept in jail awaiting trial for three years.

21/08/2010 - France

Italian right-wing minister backs French Rom expulsions

Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni on Saturday praised France's crackdown on Roma and travellers, saying that President Nicolas Sarkozy's government is "simply copying Italy".

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21/08/2010 - Focus on France

Law and order, Rom expulsions ... a week in Sarkozy's France

This week France continued to pay foreign-born Roma people to leave France, with 86 deported to Romania

20/08/2010 - France

Sarközi criticises Sarkozy over Roms

President Nicolas Sarkozy has come under fire from the spokesperson Austria’s Roms … Rudolf Sarközi.

20/08/2010 - France

France deports more Roms despite critics

France is to deport a further 139 Roms on Friday, defying criticism at home and abroad of its clampdown on foreign-born travellers.

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Police evacuate a Roma family near a traffic circle in Villeneuve-d'Ascq after their caravan was removed from an illegal camp

17/08/2010 - France

France to expel 700 Roma by month's end

France is to begin to expel around 700 Roma rounded-up as part of a summer clampdown on members of the minority living illegally in the country.

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15/08/2010 - France

France's Roma in road blockade to protest gipsy raids

More than 250 cars and caravans belonging to members of France’s Roma, or gispy, population on Sunday blocked a major highway outside the south-western city of Bordeaux in protest against ...