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25/10/2011 - France

Paris police suspect arson in Rom squat fire

Paris prosecutors suspect arson after a Roma squat in Paris was burnt to the ground on Monday night.

27/09/2011 - France

Roma evicted from camp in Marseille

French police on Tuesday rounded up more than 160 Roma, including children and babies, from a camp in Marseille, in a move which a human rights activist labelled "aggressive".

10/08/2011 - France

Marseille to evict 90 Roma

France’s second-biggest city, Marseille, is to evict dozens of Roma camped out on the outskirts of the city. Rights groups have condemned the move and declared it “illogical”.

30/07/2011

French press review 30 July 2011

The Air France Paris-Rio crash and President Nicolas Sarkozy’s anti-National Front strategy receive wide coverage in Saturday’s French papers.

29/07/2011

French press review 29 July 2011

The catastrophic French unemployment figures and the first anniversary of President Nicolas Sakozy’s security speech in Grenoble are the lead stories in most of Friday’s French ...

Roma in Parisian suburb face eviction
05/07/2011 - On-the-spot France

Roma in Parisian suburb face eviction

Roma families on the outskirts of Paris are fighting eviction, after the town council decided to end a project aimed at integrating them in France.

30/05/2011 - Italy

Berlusconi could lose control of Milan for first time in two decades

Italians go to the polls on Monday in the second round of voting in partial elections which could see Prime Minister Berlusconi’s stronghold of Milan move to the left for the first time in ...

Cecilia Malmström, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs
15/11/2010 - Talking Europe

Cecilia Malmström, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs

Sarah Elzas (RFI) and Christophe Robeet (France 24 television) speak with Cecilia Malmström, the European Commissioner for Home affairs, the EU’s "Interior Minister".

05/11/2010 - France

Priest has Roma evicted from church

French police expelled 13 Roma from a church on the outskirts of Paris on Friday morning.

03/11/2010 - France

French Roma camp clearances continue

Police officers evicted some 50 people from an illegal Roma encampment in the centre of Lyon, France’s third largest city, early Wednesday morning

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