Franse vriend van Wilders: sluit Roma op in concentratiekampen

A National Front party candidate running in Paris’s municipal elections has caused outrage by suggesting the best way to deal with the country’s Roma population was to “concentrate” them in “camps”. It is just the latest outrageous gaffe made by National Front affiliates. In a blog posting, the top candidate on the National Front’s electoral list in Paris’s posh 6th arrondissement lashed out at the presence of Roma people in his district and offered up a solution that has caused outrage among anti-racism campaigners. Paul-Marie Coûteaux, a candidate for Marine Le Pen’s “FN-Rassemblement Blue Marine” party, wrote in his February 19th post: “But what can the Minister of the Interior do – apart from concentrating these foreign people in camps – where life would undoubtedly be so below what they counted on that they would prefer to flee such inhospitable territory?”

Joshua Melvin in “Concentrate” Roma in ‘camps”: far-right runner (The local)