Some people think that Gypsies are people who do almost nothing, traveling, living free like the wind ... In the past, it was also said to them not only stealing in the houses but they were kidnapping children. Now it says that they always steal in houses and they steal cars. They also say that these are the best pickpockets.
Honestly, Stereotypes are sometimes based on reality, but above all stereotypes are stereotypes. They may help us to give us a perspective on a foreign population, is unknown to us.
This population is very large across Europe: between 8 and 10 million.
In France as in other European countries, the state remains distrustful the gypsies.

For France, 350 000-500 000 people. Where are they? inevitably across the entire French territory since there are many who travel. we can notice that they are mainly settled in cities or near cities. In every big French town and around every large French city, you'll have lots of Gypsies. You'll still have another type of concentration at the borders. In the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Alsace, Savoie and Haute-Savoie, in the Pyrenees, near the Mediterranean, you will encounter a higher concentration of Gypsies.

Gypsy families come to France to escape poverty and discrimination they face in their country. Traumatized by the exile, the gypsies are choosing to come together to better resist and, in the complete absence of accommodation, settling on land abandoned in the interstices of cities in the carcasses of caravans in they build huts, more rarely in squats. to appear in the slums.

They suffer police pressure, repeated evictions from their places of habitat and forced returns to Romania without regard to their conditions of life in this country.

- The land evictions, carried out by a totally excessive mobilization of police officers, away from view of both associations and the press, even the elect, all carefully put away during the operation called "clean ".- The collective arrests,