{"id":1225,"date":"2014-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/22-10-2014-le-monde-will-the-new-anti-terrorism-law-be-interpreted-to-the-disadvantage-of-the-rroma-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:11:20","slug":"22-10-2014-le-monde-will-the-new-anti-terrorism-law-be-interpreted-to-the-disadvantage-of-the-rroma-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/22-10-2014-le-monde-will-the-new-anti-terrorism-law-be-interpreted-to-the-disadvantage-of-the-rroma-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"22.10.2014 Le Monde: will the new anti-terrorism law be interpreted to the disadvantage of the Rroma immigrants?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johann\u00e8s (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton the adoption of a new anti-terrorism law in France, which, according to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tproponents of minority rights, could be interpreted to the disadvantage of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma immigrants. The critics worry about the vagueness of the statutory \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tamendment, which could be interpreted very widely. Under certain circumstances they \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcould prevent Rroma immigrants from entering the country: \u201cThe wording is so broad that the organizations ask if the text is not particularly \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taimed at Roma. Just deported, they come back again. From now on, one could ban \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthem from re-entering. The ministry is shocked about the suspicion. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tanti-terrorism law is reviewed under time pressure, that is, with a single \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsession per chamber: the National Assembly, which adopted the law on September \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t18th, did not even hear about the statutory amendment in question. It is set \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tright behind the first article, which wants to prohibit all French citizens to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tleave the territory, if there are reasons to believe that the person goes \u201cto a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfield of operation of a terrorist groups, and leads to sensitive conditions, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich could adversely affect the public safety upon the persons return.\u201d<\/em> It \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis difficult to estimate, whether this statutory amendment could actually be \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tused to declare Rroma immigrants a threat to public safety, and therefore \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprohibit them re-entry in the future. It is to hope that French politics as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twell as the justice insists on a precise implementation of the new law. Since \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe \u201cGrenoble-discourse\u201d of Nicolas Sarkozy, there have indeed been repeated \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tattempts by French domestic politics to make immigrated Rroma return to their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thome countries as fast as possible. At the same time, it is often forgotten \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat already now an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 Rroma are integrated in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrance. The assumed 15,000 Rroma, who indeed live in informal settlements, and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich receive all the medial attention, only account for a minority of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority. <\/p>\n