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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10446
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/jha

Reding questioned after Roma removed in France

Brussels, 06/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - French Socialist MEPs Sylvie Guillaume and Catherine Trautmann questioned Justice and Fundamental Rights Commissioner Viviane Reding on Monday 5 September about the removal by RATP, the Parisian transport authority, of some 150 Romanian and Bulgarian Roma on 31 August. On that date, the CRS, the French riot police, requisitioned an RATP tram to forcibly remove Roma families who had settled in the Paris region, the MEPs say in a press release, describing...