In spite of the constant evictions of Rroma that make the headlines in French Newspapers, there are a few attempts at finding longer term solutions. The law requiring evicted people to be relocated is being reluctantly applied, for example in Nimes, in St. Gilles, or in Choisy, while activists are pushing the case further by occupying empty or official buildings as in Noisiel. This is literally a drop of water on a hot stone, and the French state should rather try to definitively integrate these 15’000 migrant Rroma who have now been in France for several years.

• Barbier, Stéphane. Nime, un toit pour les Roms. In: Le midi libre. 30. January 2015. http://www.midilibre.fr/2015/01/30/un-toit-pour-les-roms,1118230.php
• Payan, Camille. Les Roms installés route de St. Gilles sont partis. In France Bleu. 29. January 2015. http://www.francebleu.fr/infos/les-roms-installes-route-de-saint-gilles-sont-partis-2105665
• Urbach, Émilien. À Choisy-le-Roi, les Roms sont logés à bonne enseigne. In: L’Humanité. 29. Janiver 2015. http://www.humanite.fr/choisy-le-roi-les-roms-sont-loges-bonne-enseigne-564075
• Cordillot, Gilles. Noisiel : les Roms évacués occupent la mairie annexe. In: Le Parisien. 27. January 2015. http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-et-marne-77/noisiel-les-roms-evacues-occupent-la-mairie-annexe-27-01-2015-4482981.php

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