07.03.2014 Renewed deportation of school-enrolled Rroma children

Alain (2014) reports on a new, uncompromising deportation of Rroma children enrolled in French schools. At the end of 2013, the deportation of young Rromni Leonarda and her family caused such large media coverage that president Françoise Hollande himself offered Leonarda a return to France. She rejected the offer, because she said she would only return with her entire family. The responsible court rejected this request. An almost identical case has now taken place in Saint-Fons. The eight-year-old Rroma girl Patricia and her five siblings, who went to school in the city were picked up by the police and deported along with their parents on the very same day. Earlier, the police had confiscated their identity papers and instead illegally handed them receipts and forbidden them to leave the district. It is particularly alarming that the Rroma were previously taught in a specially created minority-class, in Saint- Fons, which was located in the same building as the police. Only because of demonstrations and legal interventions this segregation was then cancelled.