Roma: a note from the Paris police for “oust … – BFMTV.COM

This is a point that might have gone unnoticed. Le Parisien on Tuesday revealed the existence of an internal memo to the police of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, advocating systematically evict Roma from this upscale neighborhood on the Left Bank . REFERENCE “instructions on Roma” to the document, written on April 11 and published by the daily demand for effective local police “now and until further notice” to “locate on the entire district sixth district, Roma families living in the street “and the” crowding systematically. ” But also “identify places presence of Roma on the highway indicating those who engage in begging with or without children, with or without animals and places of squats at night.”

“Operation census”

However, as pointed Parisien , a target population on ethnic grounds is forbidden in France. Asked by the newspaper, the UMP mayor of the borough, Jean-Pierre Lecoq, declare to be “not shocked” by the tone of this note but be “shocked to see Roma families in the street with young children age. ” Which for him is “not acceptable in human and social.” The elect, who gave the alarm that caused these measures, considered a “real problem” the influx of Roma in the neighborhood of the capital, since the beginning of the year.

“I condemn those who want to make a farm, and stopped their eyes,” says Jean-Pierre Lecoq, told BFMTV. “There may be appendices to this note, there is no doubt protocols. The police want to intervene by proposing a social process, it is only in a second time it may take place in a somewhat more incentive. ” He added: “I am surprised that you are shocked that the authorities finally decide to act in this area.”

Meanwhile, the Paris police headquarters says Parisien be “shocked that this note is out of the office”, recognizing a “facility unfortunate language in writing” the document. However, it confirms that the instructions “coordinated operations with a social vocation” have been assigned to the 6th district police, saying he is a “mapping exercise”.