FENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY has been attracting a lot of hostile attention lately – even some hackneyed comparisons to Adolf Hitler – for his policies concerning the Roma population in France.

PARIS — France expelled nearly 100 Gypsies to their native Romania on Thursday as part of a public effort by President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Gypsy camps and sweep them out of the country, the ...

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PARIS — France’s crackdown on Gypsies, which has been criticized by the Vatican and the United Nations, is now exposing cracks in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government. Two top Cabinet ministers have ...

SAINT OUEN, France — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting ...

Since French police moved in on a Gypsy squatters camp a week ago, confiscating trailers and turning everyone out, the group has taken refuge in a gymnasium outside Paris. At night, wailing babies ...

Two French plainclothes police officers walk through a Gypsy squatters' camp in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, on Thursday. France started to fly out Gypsies as part of a crackdown on illegal camps ...