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Eric Besson, the minister of French Immigration has declined the European Parliament calls to stop his government’s contentious Roma-expulsion strategy.

According to the Eric Besson it is reported that “Europeans who sojourn on (French) soil without respecting conditions (of residency) will be repatriated to their countries of origin, either voluntarily or under constraint.”

On Thursday there was a resolution passed by the European Parliament demanding that the expulsion of Roma from France cease “instantly”. That’s why he was reacting so much, but Besson also declined the proposal that France was targeting the Roma, or Gypsies, specially.

He said that “The treatment given these people has no connection with their real or supposed membership of the Roma community.” This resolution was presented by socialist, liberal, green and hard-left groups and there were 377 votes in favor, 245 against and 51 non participations.

EU lawmakers expressed deep apprehension for actions “taken by French authorities and by other (EU) member states authorities” and advised “those authorities instantly to suspend all expulsions of Roma.”

The European Commission has been blamed of failing to secure the members of the Roma community expelled from France. Since from the beginning of year, almost 8,300 Romanian and Bulgarian nationals have now been deported from France. In 2009 there were about 10,000 people deported

French officials have said the expulsions are part of a broader attack on prohibited migration. Additional chartered flights are planned for September 14 and 30. These people coming from Romania and Bulgaria are permitted for free passage into France as long as they are European Union citizens. However, they must have to find work, start studies, or find some other approach of becoming established in France.

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