Normally, Republican France refrains from deporting migrants and from evicting illegal settlement in the Winter. This is no longer the case. Evictions continue, and the problem is being shifted from one community to the next. It is as if, one can argue, that the authorities want to maximise the exposure of the general population to poor migrants, guaranteeing an increased racism. This has to stop. Evictions this week, as an example occurred in Cannes and in Chellois.

• Un campement de Roms démoli à Cannes. In Nice Matin. 28. January 2015. http://www.nicematin.com/cannes/un-campement-de-roms-demoli-a-cannes.2080540.html
• Francisco, Ludovic. Le site qui abritait les Roms a été cloture. In: Le Chellois. 30. January 2015. http://chellois.com/2015/01/30/le-site-de-lancienne-sernam-ete-cloture/

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