UMP party lawmaker likens Roma evictions to 'wartime roundups'
Following the latest government moves on Saturday to forcibly evict Roma people from illegal immigrant camps, a lawmaker from France’s ruling UMP party, Jean-Pierre Grand, denounced the raids by saying they resembled WWII-era "roundups".
A lawmaker from France’s ruling UMP party denounced Saturday the government’s raids on camps of illegal Roma immigrants as disgraceful, likening them to WWII roundups.
Following the latest raid on Saturday in an eastern Paris suburb, Jean-Pierre Grand said the government’s policy of dismantling illegal Roma camps "is turning disgraceful".
The lawmaker from the southern Herault region said he couldn’t help but react after learning "that the authorities, arriving very early in the morning, break up families, sending men to one side and women and children on the other, and threatening to separate mothers and children."