France expels Gypsies to Romania for second day

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/August/international_August1101.xml§ion=international

(AP)

21 August 2010, PARIS — More than 100 Gypsies, or Roma, were put on a charter flight to their native Romania on Friday, the second day in a row that France has expelled Roma in a much-criticized government crackdown.

Associated Press Television News saw at least 100 Gypsy men, women and children arrive by bus at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport Friday. After checking in at the charter flight terminal, they were transported by bus to a waiting plane.

The plane landed in Timisoara, in western Romania, late Friday afternoon with 124 Roma aboard. But it was far from clear that expelling the Roma would be effective in keeping them out of France. snip

“We’re moving toward an official racism,” Socialist lawmaker Arnaud Montebourg charged on French TV.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Shades of the 1930s

[Hannah Bell]

3. yes, & not the only fascist law in today's france. they've been enacting a bunch of them.

[Taverner]

4. For the record, at least they aren't killing them - yet

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Notice I wrote 1930s... not 1940s

[proteus_lives]

2. Hopefully Europe will one day outgrow it's hatred of the Roma.

Through the continent's history, they're second only to the Jews when it comes to getting it in the neck from the authorities.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Both groups take turns,

that's the truth... sad truth.

[Quantess]

7. Gypsies certainly are unpopular.

I'm not going to judge France too harshly here.