On Monday 15th October a Roma camp of about 200 residents in Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris was evicted by police.

The prefecture told Le Parisien that the eviction was ‘a judge’s decision’ about private land and that the eviction ‘went well’. At the end of September EERC, a European NGO, demanded that the French government suspend its programme of eviction for Romanian Roma camps.

According to a report in Liberation, the evictees have still not been housed by the local council. Mothers with infants have been put up in the home of an activist, and others are camping in the garden of another activist, in tents provided by Medicins du Monde.