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In July 2010, the Government of France initiated a programme to repatriate thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian Romani, as part of a crackdown on allegedly illegal camps in the country.〔 Although Bulgarian and Romanian citizens have the right to enter France without a visa, due to their countries of origin being in the European Union, under French immigration rules they must have work or residency permits if they wish to stay longer than three months.〔 In 2009, France expelled 10,000 Romani back to Romania and Bulgaria. The next year at least another 8,300 Romani were expelled up until August. Since July 2010, at least 51 Romani camps have been demolished, and France has repatriated at least 1,230 Romani to their countries of origin. The policy has proved controversial in the European Union, with EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding stating in a September briefing that the European Commission may take legal action against the French government over the forced expulsions, calling them "a disgrace". The subsequent row over the comments was widely reported to have overshadowed an EU summit in September 2010.〔 ==Background== On July 16, 2010, French police shot and killed a 22-year-old French Romani man who fled a police check-point by driving through it in a BMW car. In retaliation, a group later identified as 'travellers' ("Gens du voyage") attacked and pillaged the village of Saint-Aignan in central France. The local mayor described the disturbances as "a settling of scores between the travellers and the gendarmerie".〔〔Crumley, Bruce (source for 16 July)〕 On the same night and for a few nights thereafter, riots erupted in a Grenoble neighborhood after pursuing French police, having been shot at on three occasions during the chase, in turn shot and killed Karim Boudouda, a 27-year-old resident involved in a robbery at the Uriage-les-Bains casino near the border with Switzerland. On 30 July, 2010, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, made a speech in Grenoble concerning the recent events, both there and at Saint-Aignan. He criticized demonstrations against the police that occurred in both cases after perpetrators were killed while committing criminal acts and wantonly endangering police officers' lives, and in this context he was reported as saying that 'he had asked the interior minister to "put an end to the wild squatting and camping of the Roma" as well as to prevent further destruction by the rioters in Grenoble. As president, he said, (he) could not accept the fact that there were 539 Romani camps in his country, and he promised that half of them would be gone within three months. The office of the President stated that local unauthorised camps were "sources of illegal trafficking, of profoundly shocking living standards, of exploitation of children for begging, of prostitution and crime". ''Der Spiegel'' deemed this to come amidst efforts by the President's allies aimed at "keeping the issue of domestic security high on the political agenda." Since July 2010, at least 51 Romani camps have been demolished, and France has expelled at least 1,230 non-French Romani (conflating those French Romani involved in disturbances at Saint-Aignan, with Bulgarian and Romanian citizens being expelled for otherwise unrelated alleged visa irregularities) providing financial incentives and travel back to Romania and Bulgaria.〔〔 Bulgarian and Romanian citizens have the right to enter France without a visa, due to their countries of origin being in the European Union. Under French rules, like all legal immigrants, they must have work or residency permits if they wish to stay longer than three months.〔 The French government claimed it was expelling people on legal rather than ethnic grounds. This "openly contradicted by an administrative circular issue by the same government" mentioning Romani camps specifically ("en priorité ceux des Roms").〔http://www.lecanardsocial.com/upload/IllustrationsLibres/Circulaire_du_5août_2010.pdf〕 This mention could be explained by the fact that Romani account for the overwhelming majority of foreign migrants setting up camps in France, and that "most Roma from the two countries (and Romania ) are thought to be in France illegally". The then French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that his government had been unaware of the directive in question signed by Mr Michel Bart, the Chief of Staff of the French Minister of the Interior,〔http://www.leparisien.fr/politique/michel-bart-de-chevenement-a-hortefeux-14-09-2010-1067341.php〕 and that the directive had been canceled as soon as the government became aware of it through press reports. He stated that France continues to welcome refugees and that "we refuse the creation of slums... that are unworthy of French Republic or European ideals." President Sarkozy also stated that 80% of people removed from the camps during August 2010 were of French "gens du voyage", i.e. most of the campers thus removed where not foreign citizens or Romani; and that all removals were done based on judicial decisions, i.e. they were not unilateral police operations as would be based on a circular directive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Expulsion of Romani people from France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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