https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Roma rights group based in southern France filed a police complaint this week against a Facebook page entitled “Adopt a Gypsy,” for what it called the “flood of hatred” brought on by the page on the social networking site. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130809/roma-group-files-complaint-over-hateful-facebook-page Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:08:00 +0200 roma-group-files-complaint-over-hateful-facebook-page The mayor of a village in central France has made the extraordinary public threat to take his own life if a group of travellers return to the local area, it emerged this week. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130807/french-mayor-threatens-suicide-over-traveller-camp Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:06:00 +0200 french-mayor-threatens-suicide-over-traveller-camp France evicted almost 12,000 ethnic Roma from makeshift camps across the country in 2012, with two thirds of that total coming in the second half of the year, after the Socialist Party came to power. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130206/french-socialists-accelerate-roma-gypsy-evictions Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:54:00 +0100 french-socialists-accelerate-roma-gypsy-evictions