So, the Roma are once again on the run. This time it is the French who are kicking them about and kicking them out. According to the New York Times, "On instructions from President Nicolas Sarkozy, the French police have been dismantling improvised Roma camps in recent weeks and deporting Roma groups to Bulgaria and Romania." Bulgaria and Romania? And how are the Roma treated there?: As reported in WAZ.euobserver.com: "The Romanian society sees the gypsies as a foreign element", said Claudiu Padurean, a journalist and executive director for the Human Rights League in Cluj, a Transylvanian city with a large gypsy population. "Their degree of integration into the society is very much reduced. One can only imagine what the general reaction would have been if the expelled people were ethnic Romanians, and not Rromas", Mr Padurean said." As for the Bulgarians, perhaps their attitude is somewhat better than that of the Romanians
France is not alone: Denmark began expulsions a few weeks ago, as well.
