The cover of the newspaper Le Petit Parisien "is dedicated to the patron saint of travelers and gypsies, Saint Sarah. Each year at the end of May in the south of France find themselves thousands of Roma from across Europe. From recent statistics show that living in France 340 000 nomadic Roma people, but according to a report by Dominique Steinberger in 2000 would live at least a million Gypsies. It is given very high despite the measures taken. In fact, the French model, called "carrot and stick" moves in two directions: on the one hand, thanks to the law Bisson, towards the creation of reception areas and on the other side towards the introduction of internal security measures against those who do not comply with certain rules. This model has had considerable success as the mayor of Turin would also implement it in their own city. However, the majority of Roma are law-abiding citizens who carry out different jobs in order to obtain a small grant and some child support. Gypsies do not see around or traffic lights because it is forbidden to beg. And the Roma agree that those who steal, those who make mistakes or who does not respect the camps must be arrested or even expelled from France. But the camps are very few compared to the growing number of gypsy populations. Recently, 29 November 2007, the Roma in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary decided to demonstrate in the capital Paris, because even if EU citizens, the French state does not allow them to work and get a work permit. Condemned to poverty, can have no access to minimum subsistence goods. So continue to perpetrate Community expulsions of migrants and of all the sans-papiers.
Even before the Nazi invasion of France had begun to make systematic persecution of the Gypsy population and these steps will be taken into account during the War mondiale.Nacquero precisely because many death camps called "ante-French Auschwitz "and, with the establishment the Vichy government and the settlement of Germans in Alsace-Lorraine region, the situation worsened. In Alsace, the administration had initiated a program of the Nazi deportation of the Gypsies, while in Lorraine were arrested and later cleared in the same confined to French territory. This caused an influx of Roma frightened to other regions of France but this move had no effect because, following the consolidation of the Vichy government, the territory became a French group of Nazi concentration camps. France hosted the largest number of camps for the Roma camps and the only case in Europe, for the gypsy children. In general, it was not of the death camps: the Gypsies were used as cheap labor for farms and industry in the country. But, for the grueling pace of work and the poor living conditions, thousands of dead gypsies can be compared to those of the death camps. Currently in Paris there is also the phenomenon of "enfants de rue," or street children. They are especially minors who flee their countries because of poverty, war or to seek a future of slavery. Since living on the streets, they are condemned to roam and forced into prostitution to survive. Consequently two mobile teams were established ranging from their research and a shelter run by the Red Cross right to help these children in need and ensure they are protected. It is hoped that this good initiative still continues but at the same time we are seeing repeated expulsions of Roma gypsies and the French region and the rest of Europe.
Maria Pia
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