Paris police call for eviction of Roma people

[blake 3:17]

French police provoke outrage after calling for 'systematic eviction of Roma from centre of Paris'

French police have called for the ‘systematic eviction’ of Roma from the centre of tourist Paris – provoking outrage from charity groups.
It follows Manuel Valls, the country's new prime minister, saying that the travelling communities of mainly Romanians and Bulgarians ‘cannot integrate’ and should be deported.

A strategy document written by police in the upmarket 6th arrondissement of Paris and leaked to Le Parisien newspaper calls for Roma families to be hunted ‘day and night’ and for their ‘systematic eviction’.

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Jean-Pierre Colombies, spokesman for the SNOP-SCSI police union, said Roma were constantly moving around Paris.
‘It’s musical chairs’ said Mr Colombies. ‘We chase the Roma from one place to another, from one arrondissement to the next.’
Even Stephane Le Foll, spokesman for France’s Socialist Government, appeared to back the police, saying that extremely poor communities living rough in Paris made ‘everybody extremely nervous’.
Mr Le Foll said: ‘We’re obliged to regulate all that, to be clear on all that, not to consider that nothing has happened.’

Prime Minister Valls has continued a policy started by former president Nicolas Sarkozy of razing Roma camps, and trying to deport as many of their occupants as possible.

This has led to protests from a number of human rights groups, including Amnesty International, which points out that most Roma France are Romanian or Bulgarian and as such are EU citizens with the right to live and work in the country.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605104/French-police-provoke-outrage-calling-systematic-eviction-Roma-centre-Paris.html

[Sinister Intents]

Utterly fucking disgusting. They should be allowed to remain where they are and not be discriminated against, I never understood discrimination against Roma people... could someone explain to me the prejudice against them?

[BisexualCommunist]

They are known to steal, rob, untrustworthy, etc. That is the general sterotype

[Sinister Intents]

They are known to steal, rob, untrustworthy, etc. That is the general sterotype

Sounds like the stereotypes of so many other groups, and yet I never see evidence of this, lest you're speaking of those that're forced into those things because of capitalism. I hate this racist trash.

[Loony Le Fist]

They are known to steal, rob, untrustworthy, etc. That is the general sterotype

That sounds precisely like the stereotypes of blacks in the US.

[BisexualCommunist]

Yh same here, personally Ive never met a Roma but they are just normal folks.

[Loony Le Fist]

Has anyone read the comments in the linked article at the Mail. They are utterly disgusting. Especially the ones that have been heavily upvoted. It's pretty depressing to see that.

[Sinister Intents]

That sounds precisely like the stereotypes of blacks in the US.

That is precisely that stereotype comrade. Also they're stereotyped as lazy and manipulative 'apes' at least in my area that's also the stereotype. As for Roma people I've never met anyone of that group, I've heard negative things from my parents, and I've heard my parents refer to them as 'Pikeys' I hate being around racist fucks all day.

[iPhone Communist]

So sad, and the French Socialist Party is allowing this? It'd be one thing if they were pseudo-socialist (i.e. Social Democrat), but allowing this is not socialistic whatsoever.

[tachosomoza]

That sounds precisely like the stereotypes of blacks in the US.

I've heard several Europeans call Roma "the blacks of Europe". Both groups are stereotyped as being musically talented and spirited/fun people, but also seen as being lazy, filthy, prone to theft and robbery, and generally inferior and untrustworthy.

[DDR]

What I didn't get it's if they are going to evict only foreing gipsies (Roma) or it is also against their "national" ones (Calé people).


Utterly fucking disgusting. They should be allowed to remain where they are and not be discriminated against, I never understood discrimination against Roma people... could someone explain to me the prejudice against them?

The problem is that they are semi-nomadic people outside the stablishment.


I've heard several Europeans call Roma "the blacks of Europe". Both groups are stereotyped as being musically talented and spirited/fun people, but also seen as being lazy, filthy, prone to theft and robbery, and generally inferior and untrustworthy.

García Lorca wrote the same almost 80 years before us.

[Iakovsko]

Sasitmosa all. France has a long (read: 500+ year) history of expelling Roma. At least they changed the laws so now it's no longer a capital offense to be Roma within France. The expulsion of so many people, not only in France but all over Europe, is disgusting and points towards growing Nationalism in Europe. To this day some place still organize "Gypsy Hunts", and the discrimination isn't just in Europe. My land lord saw me watching Gadjo Dilo and started going off about how the Roma need to be removed, just a waste of space and skin, etc. I let him finish his rant, and I've never seen someone back-track their words as hard as he did when I reminded him that I'm Roma. It's a sad world we live in, and shows like Big Fat Gypsy Wedding just aren't helping.

In Solidarity,

Iakovsko