Change the mentality of the Roma

It serves no purpose to deport the Roma, writes the daily Adevărul, arguing that their mentality has to change: "Even the Romanian communists tried to control the Gypsies as they moved from place to place with their clans. They thought they should build houses on the outskirts of towns. Were they ever in for a surprise when they saw that the Gypsies slept in tents and kept their horses in the houses. Now the French are sending them back to homes they don't even have, because they're nomads even if they travel by plane nowadays instead of covered wagons. This is the major challenge facing France and Europe: to change the mentality of an ethnic group that lives in the modern world according to social rules that are hundreds if not thousands of years old. ... Otherwise instead of a decrease in crime all we'll get is an increase in air traffic with Gypsies being sent here, there and everywhere."

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