Roma deportations as an election strategy

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has blamed Roma immigrants for France's rising crime rate, the left-liberal daily Népszabadság writes. But the paper believes this is just an early start to a dirty election campaign: "According to the Elysée Palace, Sarkozy hasn't declared war on the Romanian and Bulgarian Roma but on 'crime'. This is all very well and good as far as the crime rate is concerned. However the French head of state has made the Roma settlements the sole target of his campaign. ... Half Europe has already realised that with his deportations Sarkozy is simply conducting an early election campaign."

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