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By Peter Allen
PUBLISHED: 10:00 EST, 9 August 2012
UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 10 August 2012
Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some 200 Roma living in mobile homes.
One hundred people were evicted from a site in Lyon, with similar round-ups happening in other major cities including Marseille. Caravans and huts were destroyed in the Belleville area of central Paris on Wednesday, making another 100 people homeless.
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People from the Roma community walk along a road after they were expelled by police from their camp
Deported: Many of those left homeless are women and children and will be deported from Friday. The Roma girl in the picture was part of a French voluntary repatriation scheme of illegal immigrants in 2010
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