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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry speaks on deportations from France
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Bulgarian nationals who are illegally employed in France, are residing in the country illegally, have been involved in criminal activity or have been otherwise in breach of the law, will be repatriated back to Bulgaria, a Foreign Ministry media statement said on August 18 2010.
This will mainly affect Bulgarian nationals residing in ghettos in Paris, such as Saint Denis and others, but according to the statement, their number is not believed to be large. The first aircraft carrying people being repatriated from France is scheduled for August 19, but would be flying to a destination other than Bulgaria.
The Foreign Ministry issued a reminder that Bulgarian nationals residing in other EU states were obliged to obey those states' respective laws.
On August 15, French authorities said that Bulgarian and Romanian Roma would face deportation back to their respective countries.
After the announcement and after their settlements were razed by the authorities, the Roma blocked a major road bridge near Bordeaux after hundreds of them were evicted from an illegal campsite.
About 250 vehicles blocked the bridge for five hours, causing queues of up to five km on a public holiday weekend. French authorities said that more than 40 illegal camps had been closed in the past week.
Ten days ago, on August 6, France started dismantling illegal Roma camps following a presidential order for hundreds of such camps to be removed, and on August 14, about 100 people were moved on after police emptied a camp in the central city of Saint-Etienne.
Reportedly, the Roma had been living there in makeshift shelters and tents since May 2010.
But as the dismantling of the camps began, and French authorities announced that the Bulgarian and Romanian Roma would be deported on "specially chartered flights", the protests began.
The blockade on the Aquitaine Bridge caused tailbacks on the Paris-bound carriageway of the A630, as the Roma were being expelled from a camp in the town of Anglet, to the south, and were subsequently prevented from setting up a new camp on an exhibition ground nearer Bordeaux.
This will mainly affect Bulgarian nationals residing in ghettos in Paris, such as Saint Denis and others, but according to the statement, their number is not believed to be large. The first aircraft carrying people being repatriated from France is scheduled for August 19, but would be flying to a destination other than Bulgaria.
The Foreign Ministry issued a reminder that Bulgarian nationals residing in other EU states were obliged to obey those states' respective laws.
On August 15, French authorities said that Bulgarian and Romanian Roma would face deportation back to their respective countries.
After the announcement and after their settlements were razed by the authorities, the Roma blocked a major road bridge near Bordeaux after hundreds of them were evicted from an illegal campsite.
About 250 vehicles blocked the bridge for five hours, causing queues of up to five km on a public holiday weekend. French authorities said that more than 40 illegal camps had been closed in the past week.
Ten days ago, on August 6, France started dismantling illegal Roma camps following a presidential order for hundreds of such camps to be removed, and on August 14, about 100 people were moved on after police emptied a camp in the central city of Saint-Etienne.
Reportedly, the Roma had been living there in makeshift shelters and tents since May 2010.
But as the dismantling of the camps began, and French authorities announced that the Bulgarian and Romanian Roma would be deported on "specially chartered flights", the protests began.
The blockade on the Aquitaine Bridge caused tailbacks on the Paris-bound carriageway of the A630, as the Roma were being expelled from a camp in the town of Anglet, to the south, and were subsequently prevented from setting up a new camp on an exhibition ground nearer Bordeaux.
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frenches are hypocrite. they used to put their dirty nose in other country business and dictate what and how should they operate on human rights, but franchs did not respect human rights other people and independence of other countries. this is damn state and damn people.
France is super hypocritical. The Roma is a European problem, not just an Eastern European problem. This is a very complex issue, full of hate and mistrust. If you want to get an idea of Roma and the culture, read Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca.
They should be treated like stray dogs.
I am in Varna today and been speaking to locals about this problem of all roma,not a good word has been said they steal from the locals and expect hand outs from the goverment for their children why should the hard honest working person pays their taxes pay for this scum.Also they are not travellers they set up permanent shantys and prey like locusts they are a disgusting parasite of nature.
Viriathus, an excellent Celtic strategist who managed to unite many Celtiberian tribes against the Romans not the Romas
I am glad to see that political correctnes has not yet paralyzed the French to the extent it has muzzled the British and the Americans.
Any national who comes to a host country to work and live and does not make a genuine effort to adapt and learn the language and the costumes should be evicted.
Especially if it commits crimes and tries to live at the expense of the country's taxpayers.
Romas, muslims, blacks, portuguese, greeks, polish, jews, whoever....should all be treated the same way if they do not follow the rules of [...]
Read the full comment the country where they settled.
I disagree that there is that much difference between gipsies born in different countries. Sure some countries have done better job of lowering their crime and children abuse rates, but they are essentially gypsies and countries that have gone through traumatic transition often have other more pressing problems - hell we haven't handled our stray dog problems yet...
If the French have done such a good job with theirs, why not continue the good work and why deport them?
Val
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High time to recognize them as a nomadic nation and approach their cultural deficiency in a comprehensive way.. >>>
200% agree with you
Their deficient social and cutural behaviour which some people would call "couleur locale" must be dealt with in the country of origin and the issue is definetly not a European one as Kale Romas
are not same as their Bulgarian,Romanian,Bosnian,or Greek counterparts ,Spanish gypsies and so on.
Yeah Aries, but the French are just passing the problem back to us. Roma is European problem not that of the country they were born in.
High time to recognize them as a nomadic nation and approach their cultural deficiency in a comprehensive way..
Hey !!! are you ready for the extermination camp??
Nazi,skin head and untermensch like expressions
must be avoided here.
Keep up the good work France the Roma are nothing but stealing scum and add nothing to the country they live in or invade with twelve year old girls having children are they not also breaking the laws on decency.Send the lot back to where they came from.
The peoples of decent countries have had enough of these scum.
i am afraid you will have to ask the French Tourist Office ,the only qualified to answer your question.
Actually if a better informed person can tell me, why are there no roadside motels in France, I'd appreciate....
Something to do with the renters laws or something? Germany is hotels and gasthoffs everywhere.
Even at the Riviera - relatively few hotels which are booked, but no small gasthof types of bed&breakfast as alternatives at all. At least we didn't see any signs like you would in Germany or Bulgaria for that matter.
It kind of explains the trailers all Dutch seem to tow down there....
Freshly impressed, would be closer... Just came back from there last week...
Val
A bit biased and too aphoristic are'nt you ???
France is so Muslim dominated that is beyond hope, even if they lose all Bulgarians and other Europeans.
Filthy place with Turkish toilets on the side of the road - has any one driven through France?
They have no hotels by the highway - no idea why - and people seep on the ground next to their cars! Countless covered women, men just take their little rug and veer their buts right there on the parking lot by the gas station...
Toilets were so filthy, that some French didn't go [...]
Read the full comment in - they just use the asphalt on the parking - as we were pulling in on one of those rest stops, a girl had just crouched by their car, and treated us to a perfectly timed deification as we drove by - there was nothing we could do, to avoid seeing it.
Horrible place... never thought that I'd lose all respect for the French...
Vesselina
<<< but now that we are in the EU, we are all EU citizens without respect to which ethnicity we hold.
>>>
Correct up to the point that everybody has to comply with the rules of the hosting country
and Romas hate all rules but their own they are build that way.
Well.. I have a little different point of view. The Roma ethnicity is causing problems in Eastern Europe since forever, but now that we are in the EU, we are all EU citizens without respect to which ethnicity we hold. Shall we then remind our French counterparts that they were insisting (along with the entire EU) that we find a solution to the Roma situation while in the same time respecting the rights of the minorities, etc, etc? If this is the example they want to give us, thumbs up!
Not to mention that what France [...]
Read the full comment is doing dangerously reminds of some "purge of the indesirables".. something like what Hitler did not that long ago..
to be in a society one has to partecipate not just take.
I think there is a confusion here. People that blocked the bridge in Bordeaux are NOT Roma, but french people that choose to live in caravans (mobile vendors).
Romas.
The wanderers of europe nomadic peoples who will not adapt to any conventional civilzation
moving in the dark of the night.
how about in those starving countries how many kids do each family have? it seems like in times of struggle people have more kids. gypsies arent as bad as alot of other 'races' id trade a french man for a gypsy any day.
mitko pitko , they seem poor yet have enough money to have 5 children? does that make sense?
What a charming person you seem to be Diane.
Do you feel superior to these poor people?
Full credit to the French, no political correctness required.