France forcibly evicted over 21,500 Romani migrants in 2013
Evidence
For instance, a recent report by the European Roma Rights Centre offers the following statistics for just one country, France: ‘French authorities forcibly evicted more than 21.537 Romani migrants in 2013, more than double the total for 2012. Law enforcement offi cers carried out 165 evictions affecting almost 19.380 people. There were 22 evictions due to fi re, affecting 2.157 Roma’ — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 613