Outcry over school arrest of Roma girl
France is to investigate the case of a 15-year-old girl arrested by police in front of fellow pupils so she could be expelled to Kosovo with her family as illegal immigrants.
Rights groups and even members of the governing Socialist Party have called the expulsion shocking.
The Dibrani family fled Kosovo about five years ago because they are Roma, or gipsies, and face discrimination, according to activist Jean-Jacques Boy who works with immigrant families in the Doubs region in eastern France, where the family lived.
The Interior Ministry said the family’s application for asylum had been rejected and it no longer had the right to stay in France.