France tarnishes human rights

France's policy regarding the Roma is intolerant and harks back to the past, writes the weekly Le Jeudi: "In the space of a few months and for basely political reasons, the current leaders of our neighbour France have made their country a blemish on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Even the Pope has become annoyed by the affair. ... To get the president back in shape - who would receive a severe clouting at the hands of the socialist opposition if the French were to go the polls today - the advisors at the Élysée Palace could come up with nothing better than to harvest intensively the fields of intolerance. And to brandish two menaces that evoke the days when just belonging to a population group was enough to have one sent to a death camp: the stigmatisation of a people - in this case the Roma - and the loss of French citizenship."

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