A far-right politician in France has made a verbal attack against Roma
community, saying they should be “concentrated” in “camps,” Press TV reports.
Paul-Marie Couteaux, a mayoral candidate for 6th arrondissement of Paris,
wrote in a blog posting that the presence of Roma in the French capital was like
an “invasion of lepers” that undermined its “aesthetic order.”
“What can the interior minister do other than concentrate these foreign
populations into camps where they would no doubt feel that life there was so far
removed from their traveling lifestyle that they would rather leave such an
inhospitable country,” said Couteaux, a candidate for a fringe party linked to
the far-right National Front party.
He has apologized for his remarks, but many believe that he has already made
his point to voters ahead of the upcoming election.
