In the summer of 2010, the French government massively expelled thousands of people in just two months, August and September, after violent protests in the city of Saint-Aignan triggered by the death of a person of Roma ethnicity at a police checkpoint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Sarkozy government-issued deportation orders for all the Roma community that lived in camps. The order was executed immediately. The police turned up at the camps with a 24-hour expulsion order. Once the 24 hours had elapsed, they accompanied them to the Belgian border or deported them on planes with an agreement of no return to French territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given the possibility of being deported, many families decide to flee in order to later return through borders that are more imaginary than they are real, given that the Schengen Agreement<\/em> allows for free circulation across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This drama occurs every year and affects Roma from Eastern Europe. With no job opportunities, many are forced to emigrate from Romania and Bulgaria to more prosperous places within the European Union\u2019s borders. France would seem a promising destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the summer of 2010, the French government massively expelled thousands of people in just two months, August and September, after violent protests in the city of Saint-Aignan triggered by the death of a person of Roma ethnicity at a police checkpoint. The Sarkozy government-issued deportation orders for all the Roma community that lived in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7390,"menu_order":372,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"edicion":[207],"class_list":["post-7370","finalistas","type-finalistas","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edicion-207"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n