French Interior Minister ordered police to destroy a gypsy camp in his political powerbase and to deport illegal immigrant gypsies living there.
Officers armed with truncheons and shields moved in to the settlement in the Paris suburb of Evry. More than 70 gypsies including women and children had been evicted from caravans and makeshift huts, with most expected to be returned to Romania. The source added: ‘the minister particularly wants to end the gypsy problem – by breaking up a camp in his constituency he is showing he means business.’ A crisis over the plight of gypsies is spreading across Europe, resulting in growing dissatisfaction from all sides.
The western countries blame the gypsies for rising crime and are trying to tackle the problem by deporting them back to the eastern states where they came from. France has sent tens of thousands of gypsies back to Bulgaria. Sweden, Italy, Denmark and Germany had similar policies. The gypsycrime is in turn pushing more and more people into angry, anti-gypsy groups.
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