Indicator history

On the 28th of July 2010 French authorities announced the dismantling of 300 illegal encampments.  Following this plan 441 illegal encampments (most of them were Roma encampments) had been dismantled since the beginning of August. Roma migrants are today a particularly vulnerable group amongst French society, exposed to the danger of violation of their most fundamental rights, primarily in the housing field.

Roma migrants are today a particularly vulnerable group amongst French society, exposed to the danger of violation of their most fundamental rights, primarily in the housing field.

On the 28th of July 2010 French authorities announced the dismantling of 300 illegal encampments.  Following this plan 441 illegal encampments (most of them were Roma encampments) had been dismantled since the beginning of August 2010. After elections in 2012 dismantling camps and offering free flights and financial incentives for Roma to return to their countries of origin continue. Though, at the end of August 2012, the government published a circular on “evacuation of illegal camps: anticipation and attendant measures”. The circular stipulates that clearances would only be carried out on the basis of court orders and ideally with a plan for alternative accommodation having been established first.

Source:

• Circulaire interministérielle relative à l’anticipation et à l’accompagnement des opérations d’évacuation des campements illicites (Interministerial circular on evacuation of illegal camps: anticipation and attendant measures), 26.08.2012, http://www.gisti.org/IMG/pdf/norintk1233053c.pdf, Accessed on 19.12.2012