A far-right politician in France has made a verbal attack against Roma community, saying they should be “concentrated” in “camps,” Press TV reports.

Paul-Marie Couteaux, a mayoral candidate for 6th arrondissement of Paris, wrote in a blog posting that the presence of Roma in the French capital was like an “invasion of lepers” that undermined its “aesthetic order.”

“What can the interior minister do other than concentrate these foreign populations into camps where they would no doubt feel that life there was so far removed from their traveling lifestyle that they would rather leave such an inhospitable country,” said Couteaux, a candidate for a fringe party linked to the far-right National Front party.

He has apologized for his remarks, but many believe that he has already made his point to voters ahead of the upcoming election.

Source: Romea.cz
Date: 08.03.2014