France and the Roma: ethnic cleansing and national identity

13 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. France is moving to forcibly expel its population of immigrant Roma, known pejoratively as Gypsies.

In August and early September, the police carried out raids on more than a hundred  squats and improvised camps in vacant lots. They herded family after family – about a thousand people – onto buses, took them to detention centres and marched them onto chartered flights back to Romania,...