Europe

Roma Immigrants Have Set France on Edge

France agonizes about how to deal with Roma immigrants, whom they blame for everything from petty crime to cultural disintegration. Christopher Dickey and Alice Guilhamon report.

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The French are checking their pockets and searching their souls. The problem is the in-your-face presence of a few thousand Roma immigrants, mostly from Bulgaria and Romania, who are blamed for petty thievery, begging, camping illegally on public lands, sleeping under bridges or on grates in the city street and...

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